Apple's Magical Mystery Touch Screen

Weak article. Know your history:

http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=182

I hope their magical mystery touch screen has magical mystery anti-fingerprint pixie dust.

Multi-touch is already there, in MacBooks and MBPs, as the touchpad reacts differently if you are touching it with one finger or two, and if you tap with one finger already there or alone.

This is of course just a first step, but, at least for me, it is a so big step forward that it alone could be a reason to switch to apple hardware.

I was thinking, what about something like a touchscreen device to replace the conventional keyboard and mouse on mac.... The size of a keyboard, wireless, multifonctionnal, reconfigurable..... I want one!

Actually, most of the uses aren't terribly imaginative because they've been in a commercial product for years; Apple bought the patent portfolio of FingerWorks (see http://www.fingerworks.com/ ), and in the process killed an excellent input device.

Most of the mentioned uses aren't terribly imaginative since they were revealed in the original prototype video. http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ftJhDBZqss

Am I the only one who has been thinking that the iphone (and hopefully the wide screen ipod soon) would be a great remote control for the apple tv (and your mac)? It has WiFi and Bluetooth to connect, and the multi-touch screen would be pretty sweet.

Maybe that will be one of the additional widgets that Apple will add before launch.

Admittedly though, it is nice to have tactile buttons on a remote. It's just... can you really see Apple coming out with a button-ed remote?

But all of this takes away from tactile feedback. Why do you think Apple went with the current iPod clickwheel with buttons instead of sticking with the touch-sensitive buttons? Tactile feedback had to be one of the major factors involved, if not the strongest one.

Me being a audio/video fan I'd love to see an Apple touchscreen Universal Remote. Let me control Frontrow, tv and any other Apple CE product. Let me control 3rd party IR based equipment ala Logitech's Harmony lineup. Finally let me view iTunes content on the remote or tv content on the screen so that I don't have to have my HDTV on all the time. That's just one use that would ROCK at under $199