not exactly, as imo kinetic scrolling is downright silly.

but what im talking about is a 1:1 between what your doing and what happens on the screen.

this you see with both the mouse, and with the scrollwheel.

move the mouse faster and the pointer on screen moves faster. scroll faster and the page scrolls by faster.

with a dpad you have a set speed. one that often will be to fast if your scrolling while reading, but to slow if your jumping downwards in the page.

the main problem is have with kinetic scrolling is that it takes two taps to do anything. ones you have flicked a page into motion you have to tap to stop it, and then tap again to do anything. if not you risk unwanted triggering on the page.

also, the line between when you trigger the kinetic scroll, and when you dont is imo almost random. right now i have the habit of removing the stylus or finger from the screen as part of the movement. but with kinetic scrolling i have to make sure that what im scrolling is at rest, or i risk sending it zooming of and i have to stop it, and go back up again to find where i was at.

the feedback between physical action and visual effect is very important to me, i guess. as long as i cant feel any mass to what im moving, kinetic scrolling will be a mess for me.