I believe there has to be a major enhancement in the user interface for something like this to be successful. I am one who will always use a keyboard so I have a tactile set of buttons.
Another downside is you have to be looking at the screen in order to type. Touching a screen gives you almost no feedback (whether it was pressed) and makes me weary if I pressed the right button. Right now I am watching the TV while typing; if I was typing on a touchscreen, I couldn't be doing it, I would have no clue what I'm pressing.
There also has to be an advancement in predicting what the user is going to do. Auto correcting mistakes?(Already in some devices but needs to be more widespread,a nd improved.) Typing on screen is just horrible. I use a Palm T|E2 PDA and it's on screen keyboard is small and I make many errors. A Treo however has a much easier layout with a tactile keyboard so typing is much easier.
I personally don't think it is ready yet. I do have to give credit to Apple on their new Multi Touch interface though. It looks to be a lot more intuitive than I would have expected. Kudos to Apple on this.
Hi everyone this isn't a technical question, more of an opinion post. Ever since Macworld and the introduction to the iPhone, the web has exploded with rumors that Apple is planning to ultimately destroy the keyboard and the mouse and move computing hinto a touch screen future. The rumors suggest that Apple will begin to make an Intel like transistion from keyboards and mice to touch screen only interfaces. Along with this rumor comes the video of Jeff Hawkin and his company Perspective Pixel who has developed a Multi Touch computer interface.
I have to ask to all CNET members who are willing to give their opinion, what do you think here? Are we truly ready to give up the keyboard and mouse in favor of touch. If so how is this going to change the face of computing as we know it. What will desktop computers look like if this is truly what Apple is going to pursue, what are laptops going to look like? Is this just rumors, and are you doubtful that Apple or any other company would ever make such a radical shift, in the way we interact with our PCs? Is this going to just stay limited to small devices such as the iPhone?
Other questions to consider, obviously many of people out there support this and many don't, some believe that it will imporve some area's of interaction I have to ask as technical people how does this aid people in a technology field some one who supports computer systems? What will data centers and work desks look like? what will this mean for those who like buttons, or those who are typist and type with tactile senses? When giving your opinion please do so in what we know about Apple and their products. Remember Apple and Steve Jobs personally don't like PDA's or tablet pcs. I also realize that this is a broader post but I placed it in the Mac section, because it is Apple's Multi Touch technology and they do deserve credit for.
Thansk to all who take part in this.

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