Apple turns next operating system's 3D prowess up to 11

I hope Apple won't try creating a desktop the way it is shown in the patent images before we somehow get rid of the mouse as an input device. I like having the menu bar all the way at the top of the screen (and so does Fitts's law), so don't put any crap above that :)

Taking into consideration that they have a patent on a "Hover Touch Surface", it doesn't sound like it will be hard to use. Different distances over the surface could mean different levels on the 3D desktop.

I have been playing with this for years. I think since 10.1.

http://marcmoini.com/f3_en.html

Sounds like bumptop

I think this would work great if apple made an air mouse similar to the Wii remote. With that you could zoom in and out of the screen, use gestures to move around widgets and the walls. That would eliminate needing a 3D screen or whatever. I think Apple would be the company to really push the idea of a new mouse interface. Its time to move forward. They developed the multi touch gesture based interface, and I think they can bring that to the desktop.

WOW! This would be great to have especially if it came with a touch pad keyboard and voice control for everything else. This would eliminate the mouse and maybe even the keyboard.

DO.
NOT.
WANT.

I don't want screen real estate taken away from me for the purpose of eye candy. That desktop is a toy, not something that is going to increase productivity.

Making the Desktop "3D" increases window efficiency, as you can have more windows on screen stacked behind each other and what not, but I'm not sure it will increase user efficiency.

It's a neat idea, and if anybody can do it, it's the engineers working at Apple.

This is a CYA filing, nothing more. If Apple does this, I'm switching to Windows.

Reminds me a little of Microsoft Bob.