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Of Mice and Magic

By hargrove on July 27, 2010

Following up on Dave’s post about the new Magic Trackpad, Minimal Mac has a great post, Of Mice and Magic where Patrick Rhone notes:

Let’s do some theorizing on that magic for a bit. You may see a revolutionary mouse and trackpad. I see something far larger and more subversive…

Apple is rewiring our brains for touch.

I think he’s absolutely correct. As he goes on to say:

Revolutions generally start with a few new ideas that pick up steam and grow larger as they roll down the hill. The Magic Trackpad is the visual representation of the revolution to come.

Apple knows this and they’ve been steadily migrating customers toward this for years now. Apple is positioning itself as the future King of Touch while slowly getting us ready for that future.

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  • Dave_Metzener

    This is an excellent point. It seems very likely that Apple is grooming us for a change in using Mac's with Touch control as opposed to Mouse control.

    Since pretty much all of their “computer” products support multi-touch now.

    Still, OS X will have to be radically different in order for it to be “touch friendly”. If you have ever played with Windows either via stylus or touch, you know that current OS UI's just are not will designed for touch.

  • Dave_Metzener

    This is an excellent point. It seems very likely that Apple is grooming us for a change in using Mac's with Touch control as opposed to Mouse control.

    Since pretty much all of their “computer” products support multi-touch now.

    Still, OS X will have to be radically different in order for it to be “touch friendly”. If you have ever played with Windows either via stylus or touch, you know that current OS UI's just are not will designed for touch.

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