Patents hint at iMac Touch and touchscreen MacBooks

I highly welcome this, and really really hope that this will surface either on the next iMac refresh in a year, or in two years. From time to time, I have been craving the no-nonsense style of the cheap one-trick ponies that constitutes the app store (as the photo apps that applies filters) on my desktop. It is a bit of a hassle to transfer the photos from my mac to my iPhone and back again to apply a simple filter. Yes, I am as lazy as I am cheap.

I did buy the desktop version of CameraBag for doing this, but it was a bit too expensive. I hope the App Store would take the price point down a notch.

Rather than “sticking to your guns” and maintaining a focus on your core business, try branching out like Apple and Nike have ---- it will actually feed buyers back into what your core product was.
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Sorry, TUAW, but iOS is not replacing Mac OS X in Macs. iOS is a subset of Mac OS X, so it's missing all sorts of features that can't fit in the memory of an iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Mac OS X has supported touch-screen input for a long time, and it also supports changing the orientation of the display, which was done long before Mac OS X with Radius displays; iOS is not need for any of those things.

I cant see using this for anything other than 'tapping' apps. You would be using an accelerometer, you wont be using any shaking, tilting, etc. And tapping that thing from the looks of it would be awkward unless that base keeps the machine in place.

I will say though that this is genius. My 3 year old often tries to tap stuff on the screen while I'm working or browsing the web. She thinks everything should be done via touch.

I still think it's funny that 20+ years ago Apple told us 'This is a mouse' and people gasped for air, then they copied it. Now they tell us 'This is a touch screen/mouse free interface' and once again people are gasping and people are copying.

Yep. Apple is going to let OS X die a natural death by putting ALL its resources in the MORE PROFITABLE iOS Operating System.

Steve can't wait to get 30% of ALL third party software sales. Great Business Model. But not great for consumers.

Woah. I would totally use that!
Just I think they would need to make the chin even smaller, or eliminate it altogether.

Me likey. Almost all of my computing at home these days is done in iOS. I would love to have Mac OS X to fall back on for the big jobs, but for most of the time use iOS apps.

Looks like a lot of the people whispering about apple eventually trying to shove off OSX and replace it with iOS might have been on the right track.

Eeek.