Still Working on "Piles" Interface?

[Rocketman]

Methinks "Piles" would be a nice new combat to flip 3D in Vista.

Seeing as that's one of Vista's three selling points, when asked "Vista has new superawesomehardwaredrainingflip3D! What does the new OS X have?" you could retort, "Well, there's this new little animation called 'piles' but OS X has had cool things like that for a looong time."

Pretty please with a cherry on top?

-=|Mgkwho

To the contrary, that feature of Vista was "copied" from Apple after the rumor sites broke news of Piles and discussed its possible features and implications.

It is one of the central reasons for Apple's fixation on "copy machine" re Microsoft at WWDC-06 and MWSF-07.

Rocketman

 

[cal6n]

OS 10.5 is Leopard
OS 10.6..dont think theres gonna be one
*snip*

Someone else has a good memory...

 

[Avatar74]

This patent filing seems to further corroborate my view that Apple is moving toward a multitouch UI as part of their product development roadmap that had its very primitive beginnings with toying with capacitance sensors in the newer trackpads and the new mouse, then the iPhone, and eventually a multitouch Mac with the kind of versatility as seen in Jeff Han's Multitouch Demo.

As I posted in other discussions, I've spoken with a former Apple product engineer who shaved down my five-year estimate to 2-3 years, as that tends to mirror their product development cycles when they release such "feeler" products as the iPhone, which is really meant to gauge public attitudes about multitouch sensing interfaces.

It is very likely that Apple is testing multitouch Mac prototypes right now and this patent may be a good indication of their strategic direction... which I believe is aimed at completely revolutionizing the desktop UI framework that has remained relatively unchanged since 1984.

 

[phillipjfry]

As I posted in other discussions, I've spoken with a former Apple product engineer who shaved down my five-year estimate to 2-3 years, as that tends to mirror their product development cycles when they release such "feeler" products as the iPhone, which is really meant to gauge public attitudes about multitouch sensing interfaces.

It is very likely that Apple is testing multitouch Mac prototypes right now and this patent may be a good indication of their strategic direction... which I believe is aimed at completely revolutionizing the desktop UI framework that has remained relatively unchanged since 1984.

Although you probably had different ideas/uses for such a feature, I don't think I could live with a "touch computer". I love my keyboard and mouse combo too much. Bring on the brain-to-UI interface!

 

[Evangelion]

One, who gives an expletive about version numbers, and two, what the hell are you basing your opinions on? We only know, with OS X (as opposed to 'Classic') that when we get a new major release, 0.1 gets added to the version number. There's no reason to suspect a version 11.

Why are you so... hostile about this? It seems like the whole idea of 10.5 being last of OS X seems offensive to you.

As to "Who cares about version numbers".... Well, so far the changes to OS X have been pretty minor in a sense. Yes, functionality has increased and bugs have been squashed. But 10.0 and 10.4 have lots of similarities. If they move to a whole different GUI, whole different kernel and whole different usage-paradigm, whole different filesystem, it's more than reasonable to move to OS XI. It would be a completely new OS, with no guarantees of backwards-compatibility.

I, for one, am looking forward to it. I wouldn't be surpsised if we got OS XI in 1H 2009. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if we got OS X 10.6 instead .

 

[acearchie]

Dont knwo about anyone else but I already have piles!