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Touch me, Microsoft…
Way back in March I wrote a little missive imploring the good people of Cupertino to bring out a trackpad to replace the old-fashioned Microsoft mouse lurking just to the right of my decidedly svelte Apple keyboard, but it appears that it may be the Microsoft folks in Redmond who hit that particular milestone first.
Lets just hope that they make it look nice, feel nice, and work well… unlike Vista (sorry - I had to say it. We’ve got a Vista machine at home and I had to use it recently when the VPN to work stopped playing nice with my MacBook, and I just can’t use Windows any more - it makes me want to break things).
I know Apple have a chequered history when it comes to the humble pointing device (i.e. they’ve never really made a good one), but it just seems to be a no-brainer when they’ve already got the technology in place in the MacBook Pro line (and the iPhone), they’ve already got a simple aesthetic that it could fit into very nicely, and they’ve got an image-conscious target audience who would benefit from the interface options that it would present.
Surely I’m not the only one who thinks that a multi-touch trackpad would pretty much kick ass in place of the old-school mouse? Am I?
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?..