I believe the answer to both questions is "inertia".

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 09:50  AM, David Faught wrote:

> I have lately been playing with a couple of ancient tablet PCs that I
> got cheaply off EBay.  Now, I am hooked and hungry to look for a newer,
> more powerful tablet PC to do some serious Squeak'ing with.
>
> There are a couple of questions that leap to mind because of this
> experience though:
>
> 1. Why has the mouse remained so popular when it's clearly inferior to
> just directly pointing (even with a stylus)?  Surely the technology of
> the digitizer has gotten much cheaper over the years.  It can't be just
> a cost issue anymore.
>
> 2.  Why does the Squeak GUI depend on 3 mouse buttons, when most styli
> (?) have only 1 or 2?  It is desireable (to me anyway) to have full
> function of the tablet PC without an attached keyboard, and use the
> keyboard as an optional enhancement.  Squeak seems to be designed to
> require the keyboard.  Maybe I need to look at Genie more closely.
> Does Genie answer this question?
>
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