2009/10/14 Jolyon Smith <jsm...@deltics.co.nz> > Ø Its a less certain thing as its still the future, but its my guess > likely in 5 years netbooks/laptops and mobile and phone OS will largely kill > desktop PCs and in time likely Windows too, as there is not much sign they > will be the leading candidate for mobile devices in 5 years. Hence the more > cross platform and new UI (read touchscreen) enabled a language is the > better positioned it will be. > > > > I am confident that touchscreen is a fad as far as desktop PCs or even > notebooks are concerned. Why am I so confident? > > > > Because it’s simply *not new* - if it were going to go “mainstream” it > could have and would have done so *years* ago. >
Seen this? http://www.10gui.com/ If this were here today, I would have it right now. It does re-iterate your point, they think multi-touch/touch on the screen will fail in general use. --- Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor Developers Inc Ltd web. http://www.developers-inc.co.nz ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384 skype. rvowles, LinkedIn, Twitter
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