Why the iPhone Will Change the (PC) World
Jobs' iPhone demo was so powerful that he actually made people believe that Apple invented a whole new user interface. In fact, Apple did something more important than that. The company took some of the best -- hitherto obscure -- UI research and put it into a product that you will be able to buy. It did the same thing with three other products: the original Apple computer, the Mac, and the iPod.
This is how Apple changes the world. It takes awesome research out of other people's labs, polishes and perfects it, and then ship it as warm-and-fuzzy consumer products everyone can buy.
Succeed or fail, the iPhone will be remembered as the first major step toward the third-generation PC user interface. Imagine an iPhone the size of a big-screen TV. That's the PC of the future. GO HERE TO READ THE REST.
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yup:
Command line, Mac GUI. and then ****
the iPhone is the first part of the new wave
NOPE
Jeff Han was actually asked to work for Apple - he refused - He has since set up his own company...
The original talk that those screenshots were taken from can be found here
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han
It is inspirational stuff. I mean REALLY inspirational stuff. Jeff gets where it is going - that is NO user interface is the way forward.
Gestures are definitely where it is at - just waiting for the concept of gestures to become universally accepted. Apple gets it. MS definitely does not.
You see some of these elements in Apple TV as well. Clearly Apple is moving strongly in the direction of Third Generation UI. I'd love to see them ship a huge Mac where the keyboard is in software, like the iPhone's.
Mike
Got a TV that hangs on the wall like a painting.
Got an oven that cooks food in seconds.
Got a phone that sends pictures.
Gonna have a touchy feely computer.
OK, so where the heck is my flying car? It's 2007. We're supposed to have flying cars!
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