I promise I'll get rid of the sig

[Tony Scharf]

I see this question a lot, and it seems to come from a perceptiom that
microsoft couldn't possibly have seen touch coming.  I don't know the
technical details, but laptop touchpads have supported things like
gestures for a while.  My guess (and only a guess) is the display has
some kind of gesture sensing input driver and that if the OS doesn't
support multitouch internally, this driver will translate to something
the os does.

If the os *does* support natively, then it is the apps that you need
to worry about.  Most apps I plan to use on such a device (really, fl
studio and vaz modular only) should mostly work, at least with single
touches (gestures might confuse it).

But it doesn't matter that much.  The slate has a usb port on it, so
you can hook a mouse up for those apps that don't work right or those
that require finer work.

(I've got my flame suit on...let the iPad fanboys start fireing away)

Tony

On 4/7/10, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>> I am eying the HP Slate.  It might be something I ask for next xmas.
>
>
> Its going to be interesting how non-Apple operating-systems deal with
> multi-touch.  Is it just multiple-mouses?  Is it something else
> entirely?  Can you rely on the OS to tell you what a pinch move is,
> etc?  Its like the WIMP days all over again ..
>
>
> ;
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