Touchy feely

I touched an iPod Touch the other day, in the absence of an iPhone which isn't in the UK yet, and it changed my life.

Overstatement? Maybe.

I picked it up, was surfing the web in seconds using Safari and wifi, and using the zoom with two fingers action, and the elastic scrolling movement, was suddenly flying over web pages like something out of Lord Of The Rings.

What in a conventional interface seems static, owned, managed and grown up, felt malleable, playful - almost sexy.

OK they are expensive now, but imagine this potential in the hands of someone in a third world country without a firewall managed by IT Fascists ....

Business information may never be the same again.

Comments

[Tom]

Isn't human ingenuity astounding? Who'd a thunk intelligent people could be gulled into accepting the "right" of panoptic corporate greed to dictate proprietary limitations to technological promise.

[Euan Semple]

I've now read that three times Tom and I think I understand it.

:-)

[Ben Gardner]

I have to agree the touch interface is a thing of true beauty. So simple even my 2 year old has mastered browsing photographs. Really sets the new gold standard and hopeful will inspire others.

My one criticism is no Flash or streamed music/video. Maybe apple will provide some 'continuous delight' with useful functionality rather than easier ways to buy music from them!

[Jon Husband]

Please buy me one ;-)

Asd per our recent discussion ... why couldn't it become a basic mini-laptop, with a shrunken down OS XI, especially with a wireless mini keyboard ?

Screw the phone .. who wants to be available all the time anyway ?

[mike armstrong]

the touch is a great little device, with a wiz user interface, but it feels like its potential is being held back by the software....