“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
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.