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AppleIn­sider has an arti­cle on the wider pos­si­bil­i­ties of mul­ti­touch for Apple beyond the iPhone. While the posi­tion­ing of this as being a “mega-platform” feels a lit­tle like jar­goni­tis, the idea makes per­fect sense.

The arti­cle is more focused on the effect this could have on Apple’s share price than on cus­tomers but the change in pos­si­ble user expe­ri­ence is surely the big story here.

While OS X is already pretty much a dod­dle to use, all OS-es are now rea­son­ably sim­i­lar. And most mice have just about as many but­tons and wheels as they can han­dle. Mul­ti­touch offers the chance to have a far more intu­itive inter­face with way bet­ter use of screen real estate – run­ning out of room? Just pinch. It also offers a change in mind­set where the user is closer to the action, not hav­ing to act on the screen through other attached devices.

Whether this will do for PCs what the iPod did for MP3 play­ers remains to be seen but I’d be very sur­prised if we don’t see a mul­ti­touch iMac before too long.

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