Is this the death of the desktop mouse?
July 29, 2010 | Apple | 0 CommentsI’ve said it before, but it bears saying again: Apple’s trackpads are simply full of awesome. They are the stuff that other PC-makers dream of, and aspire to. Matched by innovative software and cleverly cross-pollinated from bred-in Touch devices like the iPhone, Apple’s trackpads are the gold-standard to be measured against. Now that awesome is not only for laptop owners. Announced yesterday, together with a complete iMac line rev, the Magic Trackpad is here for desktop users as well.
From the Apple website: Magic Trackpad is just like the trackpad on the MacBook Pro, but bigger. It’s made with the same advanced touch-friendly and wear-resistant glass surface. But with nearly 80 percent more area, it’s the largest Multi-Touch trackpad made by Apple. So there’s even more room for you to scroll, swipe, pinch, and rotate to your fingers’ content. And since the entire surface is a button that clicks, you can use it in place of a mouse. Hmmm…And then, snipes like this started to emerge:
It’s happening.
Apple is, in the way that Apple does, changing yet another aspect of how we experience computers and computing. My prediction: A year from now, with the majority of our desktop computer interaction happening through touch gestures, we’ll look back and see this, as the moment when we changed course. The combination of the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad will see to that, I’m certain.
MG Siegler (@parislemon), over at Techcrunch, agrees: “The mouse may be destined to become a precision tool that professions such as designers use. History may prove that this Magic Trackpad was the final mouse trap that signaled this end.”
Indeed.
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