<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/14 Jolyon Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p style="margin-left:54.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D"><span>Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Its a less certain
thing as its still the future, but its my guess likely in 5 years
netbooks/laptops and mobile and phone OS will largely kill desktop PCs and in
time likely Windows too, as there is not much sign they will be the leading
candidate for mobile devices in 5 years. Hence the more cross platform
and new UI (read touchscreen) enabled a language is the better positioned it
will be.</span><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I am confident that touchscreen is a fad as far as desktop PCs
or even notebooks are concerned. Why am I so confident?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Because it’s simply <u>not new</u> - if it were going to
go “mainstream” it could have and would have done so <u>years</u>
ago.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Seen this? <a href="http://www.10gui.com/">http://www.10gui.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>If this were here today, I would have it right now. It does re-iterate your point, they think multi-touch/touch on the screen will fail in general use.</div>
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