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A recent article on Ars Technia has a snippet of information that got me wondering, will Leopard feature multi-touch technology capability or, more to the point, will Apple be releasing some form of hardware this year with multi-touch technology built right in?
The article states as a rumour the following:
“There will be no Logic 8. The successor to Logic 7 will have a new name. The unnamed application will be 10.5 only and will work with a new line of touch sensitive Apple displays.”
Now, while that is currently out of context to the rest of the article, the information we all really care about is staring us in the face, “…and will work with a new line of touch sensitive Apple displays.”
As we all know, multi-touch is the Apple patented technology being used on the iPhone. It’s apparently a bit better than the standard touch-screen stuff we’re all used to, especially since it ignores accidental touches of the screen with stray fingers. So if Apple has patented this technology on its iPhone, is it so hard to believe that Apple will be introducing either a multi-touch enabled Mac or display in the very near future to work with OS X Leopard?
Computerworld.com wrote:
There is a possibility that a Mac could feature multi-touch, especially as direct competition with HP’s latest beast of a computer, the HP TouchSmart PC, something I wrote about last December when it was then known as the HP CrossFire. The HP machine, which runs Windows Vista, will feature touch-screen technology aiming to draw in home users—a few demos I’ve seen show people flicking through photos on the screen with their fingers, which is all very sci-fi like to me.
While some people are calling this machine, you guessed it, the iMac killer, I certainly do not think it will be, and that’s got nothing to do with my love of the shiny white computer created by the fruity technology giant. For home users, touch screen technology seems a little too much like a novelty to me. How tiring is it going to get to drag your fingers across a 19” screen for over an hour and a half while trying to arrange photos from your friend’s recent wedding in Corfu? I’m not suggesting that computer users are lazy, but shoulder muscles will be aching after a while and I have no doubt users will resort back to their trusted lazy-boy keyboard and mouse to operate the system.
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