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I wonder whether they'll be able to sell it?
What? The Sharp WideNote. It's a great machine, but the glidepad pointing device (the `mouse' that's not a mouse) is difficult to get the hang of. Albeit superior when you do crack it. It took me three weeks, and if I had walked into a computer shop and tried it out on a whim I would have rejected it out of hand. And yet it is better: a good few evolutionary pegs on from the trackball, never mind the traditional mouse. So it strikes me that Sharp has got a serious education and marketing problem on its hands.
What's the problem? The acute sensitivity of the soft laminated plastic pad - as delicate of that of lynx or polecat with a thorn in it, if you please. And yes, I did fiddle with the default.
Are you sure it's not just to do with you? Absolutely, just as I was getting used to it, friends and relatives trying it out began to curse. And then they,...