Silicon insider: why touch screen is king
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For a peek at the future of technology, look no further than your fingertips. When it comes to investing in the future of high-tech, I would suggest buying stock in a screen cleaner company.It's been a slow week for technology news, so most of the attention has focused upon D6 -- the sixth annual All Things Digital Conference being held in Carlsbad, Calif., and hosted by Walter Mossberg and Kara Switzer of The Wall Street Journal.
D6 is rapidly becoming the pre-eminent event for leaders in the tech industry, not least because it's a way to legally cozy up to two of the pre-eminent figures in business journalism without either side being accused of conflict of interest. As such, it has become a very safe venue for companies such as Apple and Microsoft to offer early glimpses of upcoming products.
With Apple staying undercover this year with its new (solar-powered?) iPhone, D6 has turned into a promotional platform for Microsoft, which is desperate to show that it is not as operationally inept and technologically out-of-touch as the world has concluded it is after the endlessly awaited and ultimately disappointing introduction of its Vista operating system.
D6 is rapidly becoming the pre-eminent event for leaders in the tech industry, not least because it's a way to legally cozy up to two of the pre-eminent figures in business journalism without either side being accused of conflict of interest. As such, it has become a very safe venue for companies such as Apple and Microsoft to offer early glimpses of upcoming products.
With Apple staying undercover this year with its new (solar-powered?) iPhone, D6 has turned into a promotional platform for Microsoft, which is desperate to show that it is not as operationally inept and technologically out-of-touch as the world has concluded it is after the endlessly awaited and ultimately disappointing introduction of its Vista operating system.
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I like touch-screen devices. They do seem a lot more intuitive, for the most part, and you don't have to have a spot on the device dedicated to a keyboard or a stylus.
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- ultravphunter
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Everything we used before was just an extension of our fingers and hands, and our fingers and hands are just apendages to our body and mind.
So using a keyboard, or stylus even is just adding another extension. Finger touch screens are a lot more direct, and usable. You don't need to control another object to use it, you just use what God gave you. -
@ipodrulz
Then after that mind-control devices and skip the whole hands and fingers part.
Thats what I am waiting for. -
Touch screens are the next logical evolution in our integration with the technology that surround us...very soon pens are going to disappear.
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