“Touch sensitive Apple Displays?! That explains everything,” Steven Berlin Johnson blogs.
Johnson writes, “Think about the common denominator behind:”
• The missing killer features in the Leopard preview
• The lack of iLife updates in Jan 07
• The rollout of the iPhone multitouch interface
• The abnormally long delay in releasing new Apple displays
• A rumor about a ProTools killer that relies on touch displays
Johnson writes, “I look at all those developments, and say with absolute scientific precision: Apple is going to roll out the multitouch interface across almost its entire product line this spring, integrated into Leopard, new displays, iPhone, iLife, and the successor to Logic.”
Full article here.
If so, hang on tight to that paradigm, Apple’s about to shift it again.
Related articles:
Latest Mac OS X Leopard build shows OS still a work-in-progress – March 02, 2007
Think Secret dishes on Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Extreme, new high-end Apple displays – March 01, 2007
iPhone debuts third-generation PC user interface: Apple’s Steve Jobs changes the world – again – February 20, 2007
RUMOR: Apple prepping completely redesigned Intel Mac Pro, new display line – February 14, 2007
Researchers have bigger plans for ‘multi-touch’ beyond Apple’s iPhone – January 19, 2007
Wired News: Steve Jobs’ iPhone shows the future – January 12, 2007
Video of how Apple’s rumored touch-screen Tablet Mac could work – February 13, 2006
I told you.
The multi-touch screens is as obvious as the Great Wall of China. And it will be a paradigm shift. Put your seatbelts on, everyone.
A rumor… Nothing more…
But if it’s true………………… No… I can’t believe that…..
But if…….. OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!!
Naahh, it’s far too soon and way too expensive for such a thing. In five years, maybe.
Multi-touch sucks. MS already tried it and we PC users didn’t want it for our REAL computers.
Come on Mac-tards, try doing something NEW for a change instead of taking the ideas everyone else has already done– mice, graphic GUIs, mp3 players, phones, touch screens. . . you guys are pathetic.
I don’t like anyone to touch my screen. EVER!.
While I think they might offer some touch screens, I’d be surprised if it spanned their whole line. I imagine this technologoy will drive up costs…and their monitors are already a tad pricey. ILike I said…probably 1 or 2 as touch screen – large sizes I’m sure….but not all.
Wow is it time to get back MARGIN ???
I once had a Mac-fungus.
Shouldn’t that be “RODGE the Dodge”?
I just figured out why you Mac-Tools are so excited about your touchscreen rumor: Gives you all more opportunity to “touch” things, since your all so good at “touching” stuff. Like yourselves.
Everything except, you know, real women.
how do you imagine these touch screens would sit on your desktop? wouldn’t it be uncomfortable as f*ck to have your arms raised in front of your face, making movements on a screen 2-3 feet in front of your face?
i’m all for touchscreens, i cannot wait for them, but i think someone (Apple, of course!) needs to figure out how we will physically interact with it. Something tablet-like that we can put on our laps could be the answer. maybe it will be wirelsss, i don’t know. i’m just saying that putting a touch screen on our ‘traditional’ computer desks 3 feet in front of us might not make for a very good experience.
but of course i hope they come out soon.
So much for eating fried chicken while I work.
I don’t think that an all-touch-screen OS interface is the answer for the perfect user interface. Rather than an inflexible and entrenched single user interface, I want an interface with maximum flexibility. I think that an OS that can seamlessly shift from touch screen to keyboard to mouse will give the user the greatest versatility and usefulness.
@ Mac-alugugus…
I beleive you wanted to type “…since you’re all so good…”
It really takes the sting out of a smackdown when you screw up the language.
mercy, that fungus dude is one sick kid.
“If so, hang on tight to that paradigm, Apple’s about to shift it again.”
Don’t you mean “squirt” again?
I want to see a multi-touch replacement for my track-ball. A 5″ x 4″ LCD that’ll let me use coverflow and pinch in all the iLife software.
For a Mac basher, shouldn’t you be spending your days on the pro-Micro$hit sites? If we’re as ignorant as you claim, then why waste your time? Do you spend your days in the back of a dark comic book shop laughing at the ‘nerds’? Come on, if you aren’t suffering from an extreme case of Mac-Envy, then what are you doing here?
MDN word: <u>air</u> as in Microsoft is full of hot air.
And still missing the “Screen Camera” that can be use as a camera, Imagine that the screen on the iPhone or Computer is at the same time the camera for the conferencing software. Apple already have a patent for that.
I’m sensitive to multi-touch myself…
A BIG welcome to Mac-alfugus. We haven’t had a good laugh for some time owing to the pathetic nature of Windows trolls who soon go green with envy and go back to their virii and crashes and bugs et al. The last one we had was Zune Tang, but he died along with the Zunedenburg (credit RoughlyDrafted.com)
We delight in having you here to enrtertain us with your ridiculous notions that Windows might be worth something and your silly attmepts to suggest that Mac isn’t the best, virus free and growing at 4 times the rate of the WinPC market..
So feel free and entertain…
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Better to touch than take it up the rectum, eh? Ah, yes, the Windows apologists left with nothing except Microsoft’s incomplete and dysfunctional imitation of Apple’s state of the art. Therefore, the Windows apologist is so bitterly consumed with his/her Microsoft’s incompetence and his/her own futility he/she can only manage to whimper a meager insult. Keep ‘em coming, every tired canard you post only makes it more clear that you don’t “get it”, except in the anal sense. I laugh at you.
Imagine the implications for animation. We’ve been talking about this at the office for over a month now. If Apple uses the multi-touch technology across its line of products, the competition would be obliterated. The scene in “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise interacting with the hologram screens is coming true to a certain extent. 5 years from now, people will wonder how we ever used that silly mouse thing. Apple would be crazy to not pursue this reality with everything they’ve got.
WOW!
If this IS true… and I see it more as an optional build-to-order item like different hard drive size, etc. … Vista will look like an old red LED calculator in comparison to Leopard.
I’ve been ITCHING to get me a new monitor!
maczealot…
MultiTouch display use will be an OPTION… like using InkWell or Voice Input or Universal Access features, or even Airport, Bluetooth or a multi-button mouse.
What’s next? Stiff and squishy?
That would certainly change MySpace and Second Life.
As if millions weren’t addicted enough already.
If true, it will be hard for anyone to say Apple isn’t the leader in computer tech right now.
Remember that rumor (or was it a patent?) on the putting of a tiny camera into screens alongside (or was it inside?) each and every pixel?
What if the new screens have integrated cameras AND multi-touch?
(By the way, @Tre, what do you mean it’s too expensive? There it is on the iPhone. Obviously it’s do-able pricewise.)
Methinks Mac-alfugus is actually Zune Tang wrapped up as a shiny new turd.
I’m withholding judgement, but why would I want to touch my screen? I’ve spend my entire Mac life keeping ANYONE from touching my screen. What is so revolutionary about touchscreen? Seems every product with that feature never does very well. What is Apple doing that the others aren’t. I have an aversion to touching my screen, so this doesn’t make sense to me right now. I’m sure I’m missing the point.
iPhone runs Mac OS X, that is, the multi-touch display and the Fingerworks interface already runs on Mac OS X.
Jobs keynote will be remembered as the first time the new HTCI (Human Tactile Computer Interface) made surface.
Apple will be the first computer getting rid of the mouse while Windows retards will spend years wondering how a serious computer could do without a multi-button mouse. Heck, they still can’t understand how a computer could do without floppy drivers for what it matters. Retards.
@iMaki: you seriously need to look at the video showing the Fingerworks interface at work. Totally breathtaking. It is computing human interface of the next millennium.
Invest in screen cleaning products today!
I can´t stand it when people slime their fingers on my monitor screen.
Check out this multi-touch demo from Jeff Han from a year ago:
Multi-touch demo
It’s here, it’s cheap, it’s so cool
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=:~)
I’m buying Windex stock now!
There are things you can do to a screen to eliminate how grease sticks to it…
Will I need to wrap my new MultiTouchScreen® in grease proof paper?
I agree that there is something ergonomically suspect about a touching a normally positioned screen. Interaction needs to be done on a horizontally positioned surface to be comfortable. Why not a Wacom table like input device that allows multi-touch input. This would make a lot more sense to me.
dream on –
I heard levitating mice are just around the corner.
RUMOR: “Apple will release touchscreen displays this spring with revolutionary attached windshield wipers available in your choice of bondi blue, black, white, and flower power to help you erase those greasy paw prints in style! Speeds of the wipers are reported to be slow, fast, and, of course, variable intermittent. Each wiper comes with 32 MB integrated memory and a .2 GHz Intel Wiper-DUO processor to power, yes, windshield cleaner that jets from each blade independently. The iWipes, as they are codenamed, will be standard on all new Macs featuring touchscreen displays this spring. And one more thing: the iWipes will clean up any bugs your system may have. FREAKING WOW!”
It annoys me that Steve and Apple are acting like multitouch is their invention. Jeff Han’s multitouch technology has been around for years and makes the iPhone look like a child’s toy.
Wacom TABLET… not table.
Total BS. There’s no reason for it.
iMaki –
I’m with you… while touch-controlling a palm device like the iPhone seems natural, I can’t imagine re-orienting my computer screens so that I can get at them with my potato chip-covered digits. I don’t care how many multi-finger gestures they build in, I’ll bet can still do more with a keyboard and mouse in less time. Oh, and I can sit more than am’s length from my computer screen.
This seems like a case of seeing something cool and innovative and trying to apply it to everything – even those things that would suffer from the application.
The first companies able to deliver multi-touch to consumers will be remembered, rewarded, and reap the profits. So far, Han’s group hasn’t released any commercial products and multi-touch remains interesting but impractical technology. You may correct me if I am wrong. Remember, good ideas mean nothing, good products mean everything.
Every Apple rumor no matter how plausible or dubious strikes fear into the hearts of Windows and Microsoft apologists worldwide. Second-guessing and self-doubt must make their lives a living hell.
I was thinking more along the lines of an input device. Say a multitouch keyboard that changes depending on the application use. It would be easy to customize, and even to use as a limited 2nd or 3rd screen.
Oh and btw, Apple’s multitouch iPhone is very different than standard touch screen input.
zac
An intriguing idea, but large vertical touch screens would be an ergonomic disaster. The number of neck and shoulder problems would explode in no time if people started using touch screens for hours a day.
@magnetik
People who care to know about the history of tech already know about Jeff Han, and he gets his due. Apple has a history of taking tech out of the labs and incorporating that tech into usable consumer-ready devices. That is one of Apple’s core strengths. Apple has the responsibility of penetrating the market by selling products on the strength of their features and benefits. Educating the general populace on the origins of the technology is not in their job description. Leave it tech journalists to show the time line of evolution.
I agree that it is coming, but it is not going to be a mainstream Apple delivery for quite a while yet.
Where are Zune Tang & Sputnik? I miss their, uh, “insightful” yet delusional comments. They were always such a treat.
What’s with the sudden surge of Windows trolls lately?
You people are like the viruses that your computers are infected with.
Go away already.
magnetik….
OBVIOUSLY – you have been out of it for years…
The two technologies are quite different.
One is based upon reflection and a large array of lights, mirrors and a big box…
The other is the iPhone…
When you decide to come off the farm again, you may want to review yor consternation about Apple technology replication. There is a reason why Apple, Inc. has squillons of patents in relation to the iPhone and why Mr. Steveness purposefully pointed out in plain language that not only were there squillions (my count – not his) of patents, he also indicated that Apple would judiciously protect them.
So friggen dream on and go back to milking cows on the farm.
Now everyone will be cheesed off if it doesn’t happen.
Sounds great but be careful of these rumors.
” Come on Mac-tards, try doing something NEW for a change instead of taking the ideas everyone else has already done– mice, graphic GUIs, mp3 players, phones, touch screens. . . you guys are pathetic.”
True, but Ferrari didn’t invent the wheel.
I wish I could see what Zune Tang has to say about this…
It’s simple. Look at the indent where the MacBook Keyboard is……. Take out the keys and boom…..Multi-touch….
It’s coming, I know…
MacDude, Peterson, Zune Tang, Mr Fungusmydaddywasmeantome
same troll, different day
@ Mac-alufugus
“Gives you all more opportunity to “touch” things, since your all so good at “touching” stuff. Like yourselves. Everything except, you know, real women.”
That’s so much material for comebacks I don’t even know where to start! =)
This is one of your lamer fake-trolls, MDN. Keep working on it.
-c
MacGrammar Police, from the spelling police.
>@ Mac-alugugus…
I beleive you wanted to type “…since you’re all so good…”
It really takes the sting out of a smackdown when you screw up the language.>
It also takes the sting out of an comment if you screw up the spelling. BELIEVE me.
MW- because. Just because.
It’s going to great with Frontrow from 15 feet across the room.
Instead of “Touch-Screen”, how about “Gesture-Field”. Like those super-rad viewers in “Minority Report”. Too Sci-Fi? Think again, it could happen this time.
b. It’s going to great with Frontrow from 15 feet across the room.
What if the remote had a touch screen to allow you to control the computer screen?
I like men.
Multi touch Keyboard ???
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Hey “Moron ron” — It’s also pretty piss poor when you can’t use the right frickin’ article in your criticism of someone else’s post, touchwad.
Point being, it should be ” … the sting out of A comment … “
Mac shitstain doofus.
Sincerely,
Mac-alufugus
You’re not gonna be able to wipe your iMac off on your shirt like you will, repeatedly, with the iPhone. Well, not easily.
@alansky – I’m not so sure about that ergonomic disaster you’re predicting. If anything, I can see there being a greater number of REDUCED instances of carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of not having to type on a keyboard or switch between mouse and keyboard all day long.
Maybe there would be increased eye-strain, because the screens would have to be closer to you to touch them, but my elbows and shoulders would likely be firmly planted on the armrests and back of my chair, respectively, if I had a touch-screen-enabled Mac at my fingertips. And we all know the screen-cleaning products companies are rejoicing at the thought!
@ Mac-alufugus
Your highly uncreative use of expletives is curiously entertaining and abhorrently repulsive at the same time. Sad to see you can’t come up with anything more original.
And starting a grammar war on these pages will get you into trouble very quickly. Consider yourself warned.
I think we will see multi touch, but it will be in the form of a replacement for a mouse maybe 5″x 6″,
Mutli-touch keyless keyboards…. think about it. It could serve as a mouse as well.
I’m not so sure I’d want a multitouch display, but I’d have to see how it was implemented by Apple before saying for sure. If it was based on what the iPhone showed, then definitely not, because I simply don’t want to be waving my arms madly around a 30″ screen to do simple things like closing tabs etc. If true, could we add repetitive strain to your rotator cuff now? However, a version of the iPhone would double nicely as a replacement for the current remote control.
I recall at this point Apple submitted a patent on a screen that included camera lenses, hidden between the pixels of the display; another possible reason for a delay.
I do believe ’07 will see Apple’s hidden Media Center solutions, ones that drastically simplify the surround sound experience for the average user, those who do not know what an RCA cable or center channel is. The iPod stereo was just their 1st foray into audio, look for more consumer product to fill the store shelves and hence the reason they dropped “computer” from their name.
Um, yes, who called that, on January 9th, with the introduction of iPhone? Oh right, it was me.
Ooooh, oooh, mummy, mummy. I’ve been warned. Funk you very much. Dig yourself up and live a little.
Where are Zune Tang & Sputnik?
They’re home with mommy because school was closed on account of the weather.
They should be back during Monday morning recess, assuming they didn’t lose their Internet privileges by fscking around here.
I’m open for business boys, cum and get me!!!
Don’t mind the dripping and the hair on my boobs.
Just dive in… My little sonny needs his Vista upgrade.
Mac-alufugus Mother (Deloris)
Go get him Ron, and I’ll get his mother, yee-ha.
This b@tch likes spurs…
Just a hair boob thought…
Ron – stand down soldier !! – hold your head high and take it on the chin.
Go get some R n R, and report back to the front-lines tomorrow for another day, facing the evil mephistophelean hordes for troll and bugaboo bash’n and maybe, just maybe a bit of light search and destroy on grammar patrol.
Rest assured you will be mentioned in dispatches.
Carry on.
That’s a cool idea! Oh, wait a minute, I heard that somewhere before. I wrote about it in January…
http://www.pbcentral.com/columns/hildreth_leo/070103d_mwsf07-rumors.shtml
(Sorry, I had to get that out)
Doubt it… multitouch on 12.1″ tablet = yes on 30″ cinema display = no
Nope……This would need to be a transition. A True multi touch display requires a Multi touch GUI. 10.5 Clearly does not have that, the developers of the software for 10.5 would need to know about it, ie: Adobe…..etc…. so we would know about it.
Mac-alufafuk must have a shiny new gaming laptop courtesy M$! You go you pimply assed freak!
While multi-touch screens would be great, how about a touch-screen keyboard? Instead of the keyboards we have now, we have a panel which can display any tools you want – traditional keyboard, drawing tools, customized keyboard layouts, iPod click wheel on the right side of your keyboard, can switch languages, etc. Now combine that with your touch screen – nothing MS can match now or in the next 5 years! And if people didn’t like the touch-screen keyboard, then simply plug in a traditional one.
If there is to be such a thing, it won’t replace the keyboard and mouse so quickly. I see this as much better for laptops, but even there it won’t be too much of a replacement for the current paradigm. It will be an enhancement. And possibly the opening that tablet computing has needed all along. Then there’s always slight modifications to the keyboard drawer in most desks. Okay, maybe major modifications.
And it’s not even about what any of us can imagine now. It’s about what developers will create after it has been out for a while, especially Apple.
It will definitely come with all the eye candy that they can muster, such as the quasi-realistic physics in the iPhone’s scrolling.
This reminds me, I should cut my fingernails.
MW: passeggiata
> Come on Mac-tards, try doing something NEW for a change instead of taking the ideas everyone else has already done…
Come on, Mac-alufugus. Apple rarely does anything first. It just does it better. Even the Apple II was not “first,” but it was the first to make personal computing popular with non-geek users. About the only thing Apple tried to do first was Newton, and it was not that successful. Apple has almost ALWAYS taken existing ideas and refined them; there’s nothing new here…
So Apple will figure out a way to make multi-touch interface usable and popular. My guess is that there will not be any 30-inch multi-touch displays. Apple will release the long-rumored tablet Mac that uses the multi-touch interface under Leopard. There was a great little Windows CE device called the Vadem Clio a few years ago.
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9193392884.html
A modern Apple-refined version of that design would make a great tablet Mac. Apple should find out who currently owns the patent and buy it.