“Barry Wu, VP and spokesperson of Sintek Photronics has denied reports that the company is sampling projected capacitive touch panels for Apple’s iMac,” Yvonne Yu reports for DigiTimes.
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MacDailyNews Note: On October 01, Willie Teng reported for DigiTimes that Sintek Photronics had reportedly sent samples of projected capacitive touch panels to Apple to be incorporated in the next-gen iMac, citing “industry sources.”
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Plausible deniability.
Plausible deniability.
Unless Apple builds in wiper blades I don’t see the appeal. I hate it when people touch my monitor with their grubby hands!
Unless Apple builds in wiper blades I don’t see the appeal. I hate it when people touch my monitor with their grubby hands!
@cleetus
Yet we don’t seem to mind when it’s our phone screens.
I think with an oleophobic coating and increased brightness, it will be a non issue on iMacs.
@cleetus
Yet we don’t seem to mind when it’s our phone screens.
I think with an oleophobic coating and increased brightness, it will be a non issue on iMacs.
if MacOS is replaced by ios Ill go drop my mac of a cliff. ios is awesome on a phone but socks on desktops I can’t get anything done without folders and applescript and multiple windows.
Otherwise boy i’m exited to see multitouch added to the mac it’s long overdue.
if MacOS is replaced by ios Ill go drop my mac of a cliff. ios is awesome on a phone but socks on desktops I can’t get anything done without folders and applescript and multiple windows.
Otherwise boy i’m exited to see multitouch added to the mac it’s long overdue.
@Stephen:
http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
Correction: It’s long arrived.
@Stephen:
http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
Correction: It’s long arrived.
@Jimithy
oops… and I said that sitting 20 ft from my mom’s new ’10 shiny macbook… I feel like an idiot.
@Jimithy
oops… and I said that sitting 20 ft from my mom’s new ’10 shiny macbook… I feel like an idiot.
Stephen:
You are assuming that the iOS that will replace Mac OS will be the same version powering iPhones today. It won’t. By the time this switch happens, iOS will have gained all the necessary features of a full desktop OS (including file system access, multiple applications running on the same screen, some sort of simple scripting language equivalent to AppleScript, full API for external hardware, etc).
Stephen:
You are assuming that the iOS that will replace Mac OS will be the same version powering iPhones today. It won’t. By the time this switch happens, iOS will have gained all the necessary features of a full desktop OS (including file system access, multiple applications running on the same screen, some sort of simple scripting language equivalent to AppleScript, full API for external hardware, etc).
Yeah, that magic trackpad turned out to be quite the paperweight, compared to a mouse. The battery tilt results in terrible wrist position – I wish the battery container was on the top, not the bottom, so the thing could lie flat.
Anyone have a chance to compare it to one of the Wacom touch tablets? Which do you like better? I don’t mean to hijack the thread too badly, but it’s a pretty dead headline. I don’t want a touch screen display. I don’t see the point.
Yeah, that magic trackpad turned out to be quite the paperweight, compared to a mouse. The battery tilt results in terrible wrist position – I wish the battery container was on the top, not the bottom, so the thing could lie flat.
Anyone have a chance to compare it to one of the Wacom touch tablets? Which do you like better? I don’t mean to hijack the thread too badly, but it’s a pretty dead headline. I don’t want a touch screen display. I don’t see the point.
@Predrag
Why go through all the work to add finder and OSA to something that was never designed to handle them when all they need to on MacOS is add rbberband scrolling and an app store to the dashboard. It really just doesn’t make sense to rewrite iOS into MacOS
@Predrag
Why go through all the work to add finder and OSA to something that was never designed to handle them when all they need to on MacOS is add rbberband scrolling and an app store to the dashboard. It really just doesn’t make sense to rewrite iOS into MacOS
With or without this company denial, Apple was not going to make touch-screen iMacs. The only “Mac” that has a chance of having a touch-screen, with some hybrid touch-enabled OS is that rumored new MacBook Air with an 11-inch display. And I don’t think that will happen either, because mixing the two interfaces is too much of usability compromise for Apple.
The reason Apple created the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad (and “glass” trackpad on MacBooks) was to allow elements of “multi-touch” on Macs (with Mac OS X) withOUT the need to physically touch the screen.
@ Grrrilla
> that magic trackpad… battery tilt
The “buttons” that cause the Magic Trackpad to click are the two “nubs” on the bottom of the trackpad. So the battery “tube” also serves as the “hinge” point for the clicking action.
I prefer a simple mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel.
With or without this company denial, Apple was not going to make touch-screen iMacs. The only “Mac” that has a chance of having a touch-screen, with some hybrid touch-enabled OS is that rumored new MacBook Air with an 11-inch display. And I don’t think that will happen either, because mixing the two interfaces is too much of usability compromise for Apple.
The reason Apple created the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad (and “glass” trackpad on MacBooks) was to allow elements of “multi-touch” on Macs (with Mac OS X) withOUT the need to physically touch the screen.
@ Grrrilla
> that magic trackpad… battery tilt
The “buttons” that cause the Magic Trackpad to click are the two “nubs” on the bottom of the trackpad. So the battery “tube” also serves as the “hinge” point for the clicking action.
I prefer a simple mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel.
@Grrilla
Did some poking around in driver binaries and found some new pref strings. Try these:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences com.apple.preference.trackpad.3fdrag-4fNavigate -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.trackpad.orientation TrackpadOrientationMode 1
The second didn’t seem to do anything until we reconnected, turned the trackpad around and rested 5 fingers on it.
With tap-click and 3-finger drag enabled, you don’t need the button nubs, but if you want you can still click buttons by tilting the whole hand. Works great on the couch too!
@Grrilla
Did some poking around in driver binaries and found some new pref strings. Try these:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences com.apple.preference.trackpad.3fdrag-4fNavigate -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.trackpad.orientation TrackpadOrientationMode 1
The second didn’t seem to do anything until we reconnected, turned the trackpad around and rested 5 fingers on it.
With tap-click and 3-finger drag enabled, you don’t need the button nubs, but if you want you can still click buttons by tilting the whole hand. Works great on the couch too!