every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It helpfully turns into a text cursor as you hover over textboxes, or a hand as you hover over a link or action item. iPad has no such thing. Bad UI will stick out like a sore thumb, both in apps and on websites. Your tappable areas had better look tappable. Your controls had better look controllable. That decorative little page-curl in the corner of that entry had better turn a page. Without being able to subconsciously hover-to-test, users will end up frustrated at anything that doesn’t do what it looks like it should do, or vice-versa.
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