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Is Apple moving into touch-screen PCs?
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If this rumor is correct, they are: a source tells Reuters that Apple has just ordered 10-inch touchscreens from Taiwan.
My first reaction is "I want one!!!" But my second reaction is "for what?" Given my profession, I really need to be able to type; I can't use a jumped-up iPhone as my main computer. And I can't think why I would carry a ten-inch extra computer around with me. If the touchscreen is simply an add-on to a laptop with a regular keyboard, I might be interested--but I'm not sure how much extra I'd pay.
This goes to the question everyone is asking about Apple--can they survive, and thrive, without Steve Jobs? The product that will answer this question isn't a touchscreen being installed this fall; it's the first product to be designed and executed substantially without him, which is still eighteen months or more away.
My first reaction is "I want one!!!" But my second reaction is "for what?" Given my profession, I really need to be able to type; I can't use a jumped-up iPhone as my main computer. And I can't think why I would carry a ten-inch extra computer around with me. If the touchscreen is simply an add-on to a laptop with a regular keyboard, I might be interested--but I'm not sure how much extra I'd pay.
This goes to the question everyone is asking about Apple--can they survive, and thrive, without Steve Jobs? The product that will answer this question isn't a touchscreen being installed this fall; it's the first product to be designed and executed substantially without him, which is still eighteen months or more away.
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