>>>> They could make OSX touch capable. I guess you could have iOS on there as well, switch between them.
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>>> And they could merge Windows and iOS. Yea. They could. But they won't. Same here. Yea. It could be done. But it won't be. They'll borrow features like they said.
>>> KLM
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>> There is nothing in MacOS X that deals with touch/screen sensing.
>> Adding that would bloat the operating system, for a tiny fraction of users that would ask for it, many of whom would quickly discover that they don't like reaching up and out to tap on their computer screen.
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>> To say nothing of adding screen sensing capabilities to what are already high-end computer screens, increasing their thickness and weight, to say nothing of cost, all out of proportion to any demand.
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> David Smith wrote:
> Hardware advancements will make these concerns irrelevant, as they have in the past.
You make it sound as though you just go along and wake up one day and suddenly the device hardware has suddenly overnight acquired new features and capabilities.
The hardware advancements you desire will not occur unless Apple *decides* to design them into the hardware, and finds sufficiently elegant — and satisfying-to-Apple — ways to build them.
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