One of the primary selling points ofproducts is that you don't have to "get used to them" to use them successfully.
Yeah, that's why the iPhone still has hotkeys to write SMS.
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Anybody think a touch screen iMac will be coming soon?
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Yeah, that's why the iPhone still has hotkeys to write SMS.
Uhhh, if the screen "comes towards you" horizontally, you need to stand up to see it. Either that or hover your entire head over it and look down so that your eyes are basically touching the screen. The computer doesn't make the desk it's sitting on disappear.
Hmm? I'd happily agree or disagree with this point if I knew what it was..
There's 3 ways to send an SMS on the iPhone.. with Siri, 4.
I sure as hell hope not.
They have dumbed down the OS enough with Lion, I don't need my iMac to act like iOS machine.......
They have dumbed down the OS enough with Lion, I don't need my iMac to act like iOS machine.......
I don't think Jobs would have ever wanted this for the iMac, maybe a small touch pad with a screen but I doubt we'll ever see a touch screen iMac unless it's a utility device. Like a larger iPad you dock on the wall in the kitchen, that would be kinda cool.
Some things are simply not meant to happen. A touch screen computer is a horrible idea, the same way physical keyboards will always exist until voice or mind control eventually takes over completely. The iPad keyboard is not particularly pleasant to type on, even for the length of this post.
Apple doesn't actually care what Steve Jobs would have wanted or not. However, Apple does care whether something is a good idea or not, and most of the time Steve Jobs didn't want something because it was a bad idea. (Sometimes he argued against something because the time was not ready yet to produce something with the quality that he wanted. In those cases he promptly changed his mind completely when the time was ready).
The reason why an iMac with touch screen is a bad idea is well known for over 25 years and you'll find a good explanation if you google for "gorilla arm".
Why not just use a turntable? It's like a guitarist playing a monitor he he...
Pretty soon, nobody will be playing anything, just TRIGGERING a device... pretty ****ing lame!
Something small enough you can wipe on your sleeve is great as a touch device, once it's the size of a desktop computer it's not so good, trust me, I have used them and the smudges are 100% more annoying than reflections.
Don't do it!
Don't do it!
The only place I can see touch coming into it would be with devices such as styluses (and the like) tailored for the artistic/creative design user (so it would be like drawing on paper I suppose). I don't think any 'touch' Mac would be (if ever) made with the intention of it being something you'd touch largely with your fingers. What would be the point?
Only a concept from an animation student but this is how it could look and work if it was ever actually made.
http://9to5mac.com/2012/04/25/imac-touch-concept-incorporates-a-touchscreen-ios-and-siri/
http://9to5mac.com/2012/04/25/imac-touch-concept-incorporates-a-touchscreen-ios-and-siri/
When you see other companies who have implemented touch into a desktop it just screams GIMMICK. Lenovo have made an all in one with touch and I don't think they can offer any serious reason for having it.
My setup is comprised of two Technics turntables (yes, TWO - the same ones DJ's have been using for 30+ years) and a Numark mixer, both of which are hooked up to my Mac via an external sound card. At this point, the computer is used to easily manage my song collection (at 19,000+ tracks, that's alot of LP's to carry around) and to run the software. That's it.
A touch screen would be useful in many ways, and yes, that includes triggering samples (only one small aspect of DJing as a whole). It's a shame that you don't realize how involved of a process it can be.
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Must be in preparation for Metro. Still bad design. I pity the fool who thinks they'll successfully use that as the primary input method to a vertical screen setting at arm's length (or more) away.
I found their spec page fascinating. If you get a multi-touch model, you don't get bluetooth, and you get Intel integrated graphics. There must be some specialized purpose this is for, like kiosks or something.
I have only skimmed the thread, so I don't know if someone has already said this, but when Steve Jobs introduced iLife '11 and the 2nd Gen MacBook Air in 2010, he said that they had tested MBP with a touch screen. He stated that it "did not work" he said "a vertical touch screen is un-ergonomical, people want them horizontal, thus 'pads'" (I am paraphrasing). Unless somehow the un-ergonomical has become ergonomically correct, we will NOT be seeing a touch screen iMac ever
I live for my iPad, just todayI upgraded my Ubuntu Box, with Precise Pangolin,I am trying to learn Ubuntu, having 60% Mastered Mac OSX Lion
and I found myself trying to touch the screen, just due to the use I give my iPad.I have way to many Apple products, all which worked flawlessly right out of the box.
Today, I realized that I would really love a Touch Screen iMac , or a touch screen
11",13" or 15 MBA.
At 64 if I would love to use a touch screen iMac, with Arthritic shoulders and fingers, to you youngsters who think it would be painful, get a gym membership, and see the diagram Apple submitted, that shows a screen that tilts back, just as the Book Arc holder I use with my I Pad DAILY.
Bring it on Apple, the credit card is smoking!
The part you may have missed is that while it is probably possible to condition your body to make use of a touchscreen design, having to condition your body to use it is not a desirable quality in something whose brand is built on "it just works".
You might also have missed that a folding arm iMac would need to be a very specialized design, with very limited use, because with that screen size the comfortable viewing zone and the comfortable usage zone are very different. If you keep it close enough to reach and navigate successfully, you won't get the entire screen in your field of vision. It would probably be designed for using while standing.
In future yes I am sure they will either be touch-screen / holographic as seen in Ironman or linked to your brain which would control the iMac through thoughts or voice commands.
That said this will most likely not happened within next 5-10 years (maybe touch-screen not the other) but it will most likely happen eventually.
That said this will most likely not happened within next 5-10 years (maybe touch-screen not the other) but it will most likely happen eventually.