Replies to post #52937 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[mmoy]

> I was playing with the ipod touch today, this is defintely
> something for the younger crowd, surfing on wifi safari for
> someone over 45 on the tiny screen was painfull, the touch
> screen keyboard was for someone with tiny fingertips.

I'm in the over 45 crowd with big fingers and don't have a problem with the keyboard. Basically it takes a little while to get used to but it's pretty accurate once you get accostomed to it. Beats the crap out of using a stylus on my Garmin iQue 3600.

As far as the screen goes, I finally upgraded my glasses after four years.

[mmoy]

I think that Apple will come out with larger devices with the Touch interface. The model they have is nice but I wouldn't mind something bigger. I'm sure that their technology will scale.

Will Touch get copied? I don't know. Mac OSX is doing pretty well. Apple, like Intel, is continually innovating so copycats
will be chasing a moving target.

[kpf]

It is very hard for me to predict what people will adopt in this respect without marketing-research-data - i seem to be everything but representative: When short-messaging between handsets became popular i thought such a poor way of communicating would not last long (which was why i refused to use it from the beginning). It was obviously utterly wrong - i see people still doing this.

I never got to play with ipod-touch, but with iphone. I find it easier to use than handsets with mechanical keyboards - actually the design impressed me enough to look after who is behind it. Apple uses a team around Hartmut Esslinger (frog-design).

K.