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 ...). 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). Of course, there will still be trucks (with traditional GUIs) and access to the internals (command line) but, as the iOS doesn't work with a mouse I'm having trouble seeing how future Macs will still do a traditional GUI. Just some fun speculation, of course. Cheers, Ashley. PS1 I am not saying this approach (slanted screen) is not without its problems. Reflected glare would no doubt be one, resting arms another, smudges another, but we seem to cope with iPad, iPhone etc. PS2 What about Mac Pros and monitors? With better networking and the cloud I think everyone will be satisfied with a flat Mac ;-). Mac Pros will be Mac Servers remotely administered from a flat Mac. PS3 Sorry don't need one, we have Xbox 360 and Kinect (the future of the lounge room interface, as I mentioned in a previous post) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
