Here's a blog writer that is amazing. Because he's hardly socially polite. He calls it as he sees it. It's Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. He started Broadcast.com and sold it to Yahoo for CA-CHING! He has some great points about finance, CEOs, technology direction and more. He also isn't afraid to post what he goes through as a team owner, especially controversial player actions. I'm not linking because it contains the worst of our nation. So if you're really interested, go to his blog and read about it. It's been weeks ago.
Okay. So HP is spending a lot of coin pushing touch screen computers. Oooooooh. Aaaah. Do two things. Touch your monitor in the upper right corner right now. Now touch the monitor in the lower left corner. Imagine doing that 300 times a day. I'm not saying that is the extent of touch screen technology, or that is the sole purpose. But overall, touch screens are not for home computer use as a main method of computing. For those with physical problems that make standard computer use difficult or impossible, yes, touch screen technology is wonderful.
Touch screens have a specific set of uses, none of which I believe is destined for wide-spread adoption. Artistically it can be used for drawing. We already have Tablet PCs, and we all know how well those sell.
Using a keyboard is faster to navigate a computer. A mouse makes nearly everyone capable of navigating a computer. Keyboard shortcuts, if taken the time to learn them, would improve speed of navigation. Touch screens do the exact opposite. Games may be easier, like solitaire, but we're all lazy. No one wants to come home from work and become a mummy operating a computer.
The sad fact is the novelty of touch screens will outweigh intelligent decision making.
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