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C|Net Looks at Apple’s Magic Touch
Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 3:00 PM - by John Martellaro
Apple believes that the multitouch interface so popular on its iPhone will transfer to the MacBooks. The problem is that as Apple enforces its patents on various gestures, competitors will seek creative ways around those patents, and the technical community, accustomed to 25 years of standard mice and icons, will end up with many different user interfaces, according to C|Net on Tuesday.
Apple first brought the touch pad gestures over the MacBook Air, but now that theyre included in the new MacBooks Pros, many more customers will be exposed to the technology. One can expect Apple to protect that technology IP as it percolates into the mainstream, especially with notebooks being a significant fraction of Apples sales.
Even so, competitors wont be far behind. At CES, Synaptics introduced their own multitouch UI called "Momentum." Microsoft is well known for its Surface Project.
On one hand, Apple has an opportunity to create the next generation user interface for small, portable computers. However, there is also a risk that we could soon see the same gesture doing different things on different devices from different companies. That could be a giant step backward for the industry, according to Tom Krazit.
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