On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > I remember when OSX was released (slow and buggy) by Steve Jobs at WWDC > thinking that the new Apple had saved the Mac for another 20 years. It is > hard to believe half that period had gone already. > > With regards to the future, speculating of course, I think we are heading for > an iOS world on the desktop as well as the tablet and phone. It is, of > course, built around OSX (but not the Mac OS, if you follow ...).
I don't think it will happen. I think you will get some iOS ways of manipulating things added (as in Lion) but I don't think you will supplant the keyboard and mouse any time in the next 20 years as the main input Plus, the HW needs are different between Mac OS X and iOS (which is also OS X). So you will continue to have different OSes on the desktop and the mobile post-PC device. > > Personally, I think iMacs will eventually "fall over" and be slanted screens > on our desk, and we will do everything with our fingers on the screen (even > typing, with voice,and possibly camera gesture recognition. > > Yes, Steve said that multi-touch on a vertical screen won't cut it, but I > think multi-touch on a horizontal (slanted) screen will work just fine. Most > of the space in front of my screen is wasted on a keyboard. > > That's right I'm suggesting Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Xcode, pretty much all > apps will be multi-touch apps, and we will even lose the menu bar as we know > it today (since it was made for the mouse). The mouse is much finer control. Multi-touch is not a mouse replacement when you need a mouse. The prevalence of the "PC" may go down as more and more people adopt post-PC devices for their day to day normal use, but the keyboard and mouse will not go away on the "PC" in the next 20 years. That is my prognostication. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
