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What's the point of the magic trackpad?

By Dave Winer on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM.

BERJAYAOn Twitter, Dossy wonders why the new Magic Trackpad from Apple. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

There's the the M-word again. Pretty soon I'm going to think it's a brand name™. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named trackpad.jpg Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Come on guys get with the program. You're in the middle of a bootstrap. This is the next step. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Apple has a new operating system called iOS. It's what runs on iPods (which they are phasing out), iPhones and iPads.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What doesn't it run on? (Yet.) Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Why not? Wellllllll. Cause for one thing, the Mac is built around a mouse as a pointing device and iOS is built around fingers as the pointing device. So if you want to run iOS software on Mac hardware don't you need a little new hardware? Just a little?  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Come on, this isn't that hard. It's Software Evolution 101. Permanent link to this item in the archive.




  
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