“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
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)