more tablet excitement
The January 27th event is finally official. The pictured invitation has gone out to members of the press.
Shortly after the announcement of the original iPhone, Steve Jobs made a powerful statement about the dynamic touch interface on the new device.
It’s the first thing to come along since the mouse and the bit-mapped display and take things to the next level.
The mouse and bit-mapped display has been the standard MO since the Macintosh was first introduced in 1984. I believe this statement by Jobs indicates that he believes these touch screen mechanics are going to dictate the next generation of computing devices. This trend is what the Apple Tablet is aiming to continue. I think Apple sees this new interface technology as something that will (long term) marginalize the use of keyboard/mouse systems altogether. They’re making steps one at a time to introduce this next iteration of interface design as marketable devices. The iPhone was just the first step. No one can argue that the iPhone has been anything less than a complete runaway success. We’ll see if the new Tablet will be able to take that success to a larger platform.