Pinch would be more than enough for me…

-Flo

I’m afraid you’re simply just wrong there. You’d be surprised by the number of emails we get asking how to do tasks infinitely easier than changing some system prefs.

So while the article might not have been helpful to you, please don’t write it off thinking everyone else feels the same or thinks the same…they don’t.

I don’t know much about the mechanics of the trackpad, but it suggests to me that if the trackpad can register three fingers as a command other than scroll, even if it is a non-command, then software can be written to make use of this feature.

I’m less sure about pinch and rotate, since that requires a calculation of where the two fingers are in relation to each other, and that might require more nuanced mechanics. But, I agree, if it is possible for Apple to add additional functionality to the trackpad, they should do so. Or some enterprising third party should do it.

At the end of the article, you say that swipe, pinch/expand, and rotate do not work. These are the three *new* gestures that apple has been touting; in fact, they’re the only three mentioned in the blurb on the page you link to. The other seven are alluded to on the MacBook Pro page.

Seventy percent of a feature that it doesn’t even supposedly have isn’t bad in my book.”

But the MacBook Pro *does* have those features; if you type “trackpad” in the search box at the top of this page, you’ll find references to many of them in other posts on this site.

I don’t mean this to be inflammatory – I agree that having these features on the existing laptop line would be useful and easy to implement, but this article is about being thankful or surprised that we have great trackpad gestures that have been around for a while.