We're all fad-chasing suckers, straining for excuses to waste good money on the lastest techno junk. That's why I much prefer using a stylus over my fingers on iOS devices (zoom jestures be hanged) which, in turn, I still find far inferior to using an accurate, sharp stylus on a 10-year old Palm Tungsten with its elegant and efficient Graffiti handwriting recognition instead of tapping an onscreen querty keyboard with what amounts to the stylus version of a fist-sized brick of sidewalk chalk. But really.do you get excited about using a kiosk at the airport?) (Okay, with the addition of zoom and pan gestures. Along comes grossly underpowered, overpriced iOS devices and suddenly everyone wants to use to use their iPads as a kiosk. Your hand gets in the way, and you get fingerprints all over the screen. Who really wants to work that way? It's awkward, cumbersome, slow and laborious. They just let you work on your computer as if it's a kiosk.

Nowhere near a practical substitute for using a Wacom stylus (and I don't even really like using Wacoms, either).Įver visited a computer store and played with the HP turnkey system bundles that include a large touchscreen monitor? They predated iOS devices, and they are mostly a marketing flop. In other words, it's really just about using your iPad for ordinary remote access (which is reasonable), not about using your iPad as an alternate pointing device. Being a touchscreen, your finger (or a blunt stylus) becomes the 'mouse.' What the iPad tricks do is effectively allow you to use the iPad as another monitor, but one that happens to be a touchscreen.

What the iPad actually does is allow you to use it as a mouse not a pressure sensative tablet.

Use ipad as mouse for imac