Observers were instructed to look at the cursor when touching the surface.
If you're not familiar with air mice in general, it's a class of input device that uses accelerometers and gyros to determine the position and orientation of the mouse, and move the cursor when you move the mouse.
The boat will go in any direction you are pointing your cursor when you hold the The boat will go in any direction you are pointing your cursor when you hold the button.
If you regularly get the wait cursor when working on the Mac, it could be because of a number of things, including lack of memory (the RAM kind) to efficiently complete the task on screen, not enough available hard-drive space or an overworked processor.
The insertion point allows you to know the direction of the cursor when moving around in a document.
And then there was the telltale wobble of the cursor when at rest, continually appearing on screen during a movie that hides the mouse when not in use.
Everything from button and menu item touch points, to the icons, to the size and design of the cursor when editing documents seems carefully and thoughtfully created, so you begin to understand part of why this software took so many years to come to market.
If you want to click on a link you can move a cursor around a screen with your finger - cleverly the cursor is set slightly away from your finger so you can see what you are doing, the same goes for the cursor when typing emails if you need to go back and make corrections - or if you have zoomed in, you can just 'click' on the link.
There's a lot more in the new OS, from speed and efficiency improvements to a new system font (matching the Apple Watch and OS X El Capitan) to a very cool way to move the cursor when you're typing.
We Europeans all have radically different views of the proper role of the state, the size of the state, the correct role for competition, whether to favour individual liberty of choice over social solidarity, where to place the cursor when trading welfare protections against dynamism, you name it.
