iOS device side effect.... do you find yoursel doing this ?

[cbelt3]

... reaching for buttons on the screen of your desktop or laptop ?
.... trying to use finger gestures to zoom in or out ?

I find myself doing that at work on the windoze laptop. It's such an automatic and understandable gesture.... yet another measure of the true genius in Apple's human engineering designs.

[Numo]

Exactly!

My kids laugh at me when I try to move something with my finger on the screen of their MBP, but I think I may have the last laugh in this matter.

[OWC Jamie]

I've recently tried to gesture zoom on the ball of my track ball.

I hardly ever use the iPad, too.

[DRR]

My daughter and I were at the Apple store, playing with Photo Booth on a MBA.

She kept pushing the red button on the screen to take the picture. I said, no, you have to use this thing down here to move that arrow on the screen. She said oh, that's hard.

She's 4. It occurred to me that her level of computer literacy may evolve in a time where touch is the primary input. For me it was text. For the young'uns around here, they're used to GUI based mouse input. The little ones these days are on the leading edge of touch input.

[rz]

No, and I've had an iPhone for 15 months. But I've been using a mouse for over 20 years.

[mrthuse]

Yes, I know what you mean and yes, I've done that. Don't think I've caught myself enough to consider it a habit, though and I'd guess that's sort of the point of the question.

[Chakravartin]

cbelt3 wrote:
... reaching for buttons on the screen of your desktop or laptop ?
.... trying to use finger gestures to zoom in or out ?

The latter, yes. And page-up/down strokes.

But it's not from using my iPhone. It's from using the trackpad on my MacBook Pro and it happens whenever I use a computer with a trackpad.

It's especially annoying when I'm working on my mom's PowerBook or my Nephew's Toshiba.

[Don C]

I've tried pressing the screen on the credit card reader at the grocery store when pushing the little button beside the screen was the required response. Kind of embarrassing although the clerk kindly told me that it was a common error.

[sekker]

I've been trying to hit buttons on my large external monitor attached to this MBP ever since I owned an original iPhone.

I spent almost an hour at a microsoft store test driving their two touch 24" PCs - Sony and HP.

I think Windows 8 is going to be ideal for those machines - and Apple is definitely missing the boat selling SOMETHING that is bigger than an iPad that's multitouch.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I've never tried to use iPad movements on my MBP, but I try to use movements from my MBP one my Wintel laptop all the time. It never works.