Did you miss a new conference organized by Apple? If so, then you still have a bit to wait because in just one week Apple will hold a new conference which will probably focus on a new version of the Mac OS X operating system, but there are chances that Steve Jobs will also present a new product . "Back to the Mac" is the slogan under whose patronage this conference will take place and the lion behind the apple indicates that Steve Jobs could TALK about the new Mac OS X 10.7 that could come with support for touchscreens. Unfortunately, I don't think we will see anything new for iDevices, but it is possible that Apple will discuss some new function of iOS 4.2 or maybe the white model of the iPhone 4 or the CDMA Only model. It remains to be seen what Apple is preparing for us.
Indeed, many of the new features in the Leopard operating system version are incremental improvements. But Mr. Jobs said he was struck by the success of the multitouch interface that is at the heart of the iPhone version of the OS X. This allows a user to touch the screen at more than one point to zoom in on a portion of a photo, for example.
"People don't understand that we've invented a new class of interface," he said.
He contrasted it with stylus interfaces, like the approach Microsoft took with its tablet computer. That interface is not so different from what most computers have been using since the mid-1980s.
In contrast, Mr. Jobs said that multitouch drastically simplified the process of controlling a computer.
There are no "verbs" in the iPhone interface, he said, alluding to the way a standard mouse or stylus system works. In those systems, users select an object, like a photo, and then separately select an action, or "verb," to do something to it.
