“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.
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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.