My mother (74) needed about a day to get used to mouse movements. I thought, mouse is not that intuitive I was always considering it. We're moving computers more and more towards non-computer people, people that can't use programming languages, standard interfaces, don't know the keyboard. Human interfaces will definitely evolve and let people control computers by voice and some ultimately intuitive natural body gestures. I remember when the first graphical interface builders appeared - I was upset then. Now every idiot could build nice looking programs! :) I also remember when some more senior IT specialist told me he believes computers will be soon equipped with 256MB-512MB of RAM (that was year 1996, I was looking at him with eyes wide open and thought he's a lunatic). :)
ok it's 2019, just in 10 years, ok? I'm also not going to give up my Magic Mouse I've just bought... :)))
I can tell you what is the advantage of Magic over Mighty - easy! The scroll ball doesn't get stuck anymore!
I can't agree with "only refined and miniaturized". The way we live is changing. Think of a cell phone. How could people live without it in 1960? Flying planes has become a routine, sometimes just like taking bus or train. iPhone has mixed computer and telephone and defined new level of mobile computing. Imagine what would it take to clarify a term or get some info on a subject back in 1960? Not like right now: just reach your iPhone and google it. Skype! I am getting already nervous when I don't see the person on the other side! Remember dreams of video-phone? Coming soon, just wait a little bit! Teleportation: have you read about an experiment made by Australian scientists? It's pretty long way ahead for them to get people teleported, but in principle, those guys have done that!
It is all changing dramatically, we are just not noticing!
think of 2019, cwa107!
lay down the screen to make it a table surface or a drawing board, imagine new glass coating that dramatically decreases smudge.. of course there are technological problems, I can give you more food: imagine how can you use Photoshop with multitouch screen - fingers are not precise, and there are plenty of various tools to use in Photoshop - I'm not sure how would that work with fingers? I guess the world may be splitting: more office/public user type of functionality would go tablet and surfaces, and artistic computers would be still equipped either with styluses or something else...
Mixed feelings.. Certainly true - it is a jail if you can't install applications except for those certified by AppStore. On the other hand, I guess we don't want the iPhones to turn into another version of slow and inefficient Windows Mobile where nothing really works well and phone calls drop?
Seriously, the new Mobile Me service looks beautiful... and it dies in the whole it's beauty. It's just too heavy and too comprehensive - everybody is complaining about performance, especially Windows users. Maybe it makes sense to consider making it little bit simpler? Maybe not that simple as Google, but Facebook and Plaxo seem to look and feel just about right? Fully agree with the author's strategy remarks
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