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Originally Posted by BWinmill
So people are supposed to live with inferior technologies in order to encourage innovation? I'm going to let you in on a deep and dark secret: touch screens have been around for decades, but have never caught on because they are not suitable for intensive and prolonged use. Unless you are using a stylus, they also lack precision. Precision is fundamental for some work. Before anyone gets on their high horse, I'm not saying that touch screens are useless. They certainly make life easier for quick inputs that can be spatially organized. I'm sure that you can add a few more things to that list. But they will never be a panacea for data entry jobs.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, you can, but you don't want to. 
Apple has gone a long way towards showing that the mouse isn't needed for the PC user experience, but the physical keyboard remains central. At bottom a PC is really a typewriter with a screen. |
A mouse isn't needed, but until everyone goes back to resistive touchscreens instead of capacitive ones, there's not going to be any reason to get rid of traditional input devices. A capacitive touchscreen (like the one on the iPad) is limited in accuracy, making it useless for advanced photo editing and graphic design. Even with a stylus, you can't get closer than about 1/4 inch. That 1/4 inch could mean the difference between accidentally blurring out a face, or not.
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Now you can choose a different tablet to avoid that stupidity, and I have. Microsoft has even gone as far as offering another option to that slate. Which kinda leaves me wondering: why are so many people wishing Microsoft ill in their new venture? It is, after all, just another option.
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I don't like what they've done to the PC market, and don't want to see the tablet market go the same way- dominated by one OS, with more security holes than a cyclone fence.