Rant on Mouse Based User Interface
One can't deny, using graphical user interface(GUI) because it has been deep rooted as integral part of the software, it has become the de facto user interface. Interacting with the software means clicking buttons, moving mouse, pressing on keyboards. Among the input device, keyboard is the most important one if someone wants to interact with their computer. There is no long history of Computer and computer based system like gun powder, or paper does. But Keyboard usage can be dated back to earliest of times when computer and its capabilities were just being recognized. When large innovations were being made in the field of computing, Xerox realized that mouse could be the next big thing but they didn't invest upon the idea. The sold it to Apple. Apple implemented the idea, and tuned in such a way that it changed how we looked at interacting with computers. The introduction to mouse was what made graphical User Interface possible. The pointer acquires some coordinat...