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What's the point of the magic trackpad?
By Dave Winer on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM.

On Twitter, Dossy wonders why the new Magic Trackpad from Apple. #

There's the the M-word again. Pretty soon I'm going to think it's a brand name™. #

A picture named trackpad.jpg #

Come on guys get with the program. You're in the middle of a bootstrap. This is the next step. #

Apple has a new operating system called iOS. It's what runs on iPods (which they are phasing out), iPhones and iPads.  #

What doesn't it run on? (Yet.) #

Why not? Wellllllll. Cause for one thing, the Mac is built around a mouse as a pointing device and iOS is built around fingers as the pointing device. So if you want to run iOS software on Mac hardware don't you need a little new hardware? Just a little?  #

Come on, this isn't that hard. It's Software Evolution 101. #




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