Apple likes to keep a simple production line.
What I don't understand is how you think Apple is going to get 1024 pressure levels on that giant 27" piece of solid glass?????????
Thinner piece of glass, I reckon.
Wacom did it splendidly with 21"...I think Apple could pull it off (and that's assuming they keep it all in-house).
I'm pretty sure that none of the iOS devices have pressure sensitive glass.
They don't - and it kills me. The iPad with pressure-sensitive glass would be a godsend.
They are not going to make two screens like they do on the laptops.
That's speculation. Even at that, I'm arguing about what I'd like to see and what I think Apple is capable of doing; to say that they flat-out won't makes me think you're jacked in to some information that the rest of us Macheads doesn't have - feel free to share
On another issue, the DPI on the iMacs is so high that it would make touch interactivity with menus etc... a less than optimal experience.
Do you honestly think that Apple, of all companies, would put out a touchscreen iMac without any consideration of the the UX ?
In addition, do software developers want to rewrite their Apps for a touch GUI in addition to their regular GUI? I think they would rather focus on new features and bug fixes rather than a whole new touch GUI.
Do they want to rewrite their apps? Probably not. Will they? Probably. Have we seen the "Don't like it but I'll do it anyway" scene acted out before? Yes: The iTunes App Store.
It's a bit cold, I'll admit, but the power is still with the developers; if they don't think there's any longevity in the touchscreen iMac platform, they won't go through the trouble of making their apps compatible, and the platform will flounder. That said, I doubt it would be a rudderless journey for developers, as I'm sure something in the OS X SDK would help translate certain actions/events in the regular GUI to the touch GUI (aside from the standard enlarged icons, a la iPhone to iPad usability).
Davin, I respect your excitement and enthusiasm for these features in an iMac, but I do not believe we will see anything like this in an iMac for at least a few more years. First, we need a resolution independent OS.
From Apples point of view, it does not currently make sense in terms usability or business strategy.
Doesn't mean they aren't thinking about it, or on the cusp of making it happen.
I'd say that 50% of the companies that file patents do so based on something that kinda-sorta works. On the other hand, I think Apple is one of the other 50% that files patents based on tech they've already worked with fairly rigorously. People in the thread were saying that (a) a touchscreen iMac "wouldn't work," and (b) Apple wouldn't do it anyway - when all evidence to the contrary makes a touchscreen iMac
inevitable, given their current hard-on for (and undeniable success with) touch-based UX, the touch iMac patent, the
10-finger-plus-two-palm multi-touch patent (because LOL @ that having any sort of use on a 10" iPad), and...well...
the existence of touchscreen iMacs.
Ditto. The chin's gotta go.
