![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The iPhone and now iPad mark a similar mainstream transition from GUI to multitouch user interface (I'm not calling it MUI). So, like the metaphorical bird, they pushed us out the CLI nest and made us madly flap our GUI wings (or risk crashing). They'd never learn the new paradigm because they wouldn't have to. People had to become comfortable using a mouse to drive the new interface, and Apple felt that if they gave them arrow keys users would just launch text windows, abandon the mouse, and revert to what they were comfortable with at the first opportunity. The Mac was the mainstream transition from CLI (command-line interface) to GUI (graphical user interface). ![]()
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