[IxDA Discuss] Scenarios for multitouch displays?

[pauric]

I think its fair to counter your version of the iPod chain of events
with the points that there were personal music players before, as
there are computers preceding the Surface.  But Apple's key to
success was to tell the story, people could relate to portable music
players in their pockets.  Then in conjunction with itunes you had a
vertical solution. It isnt about the tech, its about the music.

Regarding the "B-school types (that) were asking about the internet
in the middle/ late'90s and is what led to so many ill-concieved,
over-caffeinated, internet startups." Hold up! they weren't asking
where's the story?  Money was gushing, no one asked the right
questions and when dawn rose after the party it was a very bleak
landscape.

Now, we're all wise enough to be able to peer in to our personal
crystal balls and postulate on the vision, the story.  Its a fools
errand to just sit here and say this is disruptive technology, a new
dawn is rising.

What is being disrupted? Kiosks?


Hasn't anyone got a realistic elevator pitch on this thing???


(fwiw: I'm not anti MS or pro Apple, I personally think the iPod is
a P.O.S. (but its got a killer story))


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