![]() Moreover, they’re not a precise way of pointing something: if you try to quickly put your finger on some on-screen target, you’ll actually hit somewhere in a circle of ~1 inch diameter around the place you were looking at. Just put your finger aside with your mouse pointer to see what I mean. ![]() ![]() Aside from being greasy and leaving ugly traces on the screen, fingers are quite big. Touchscreen are manipulated using fingers. ![]() It’s fun to use, it’s rather intuitive (just point with your finger, as your mother always forbid you to do) and it makes zooming and rotating images much, much nicer, but I think that general-purpose computing cannot exist on a touchscreen device for the following reasons: Most cellphone and laptop / desktop computers manufacturers seem to see it as the interface of tomorrow. The first thing that may kill personal computing as we know it today, from Windows to Photoshop, is the hype around the touchscreen thing. Is there no market anymore for general-purpose personal programmable machines, able to do about anything? I’ll try to answer this question, taking into account two major trends in the personal computing market : touchscreen-powered devices and cloud computing. Their customizable internals are only accessible to the people who engineered them. They rather look like usual tools, with a fixed use. Today, like it or not, they’re everywhere However, part of the individual-oriented computers are going rather far from the original programmable machine model. Some (scientists, banks, insurance companies) felt like they were dreaming, others (like some SF writers) rather thought of it as a nightmare. When computers–evolutive machines which may be reprogrammed at will–became widely available, it generated a well-deserved buzz. ![]()
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