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Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival
snydeq writes "Ongoing Microsoft hype around its Surface touch technology has suggested that, with Windows 7, a touch-based UI revolution is brewing. Unfortunately, the realities of touch use in the desktop environment and the lack of worthwhile development around the technology are conspiring against the notion of touch ever finding a meaningful place on the desktop, as InfoWorld's Galen Gruman finds out reviewing Windows 7's touch capabilities. 'There's a chicken-and-egg issue to resolve,' Gruman writes. 'Few apps cry out for a touch UI, so Microsoft and Apple can continue to get away with merely dabbling with touch as an occasional mouse-based substitute. It would take one or both of these OS makers to truly touchify their platforms, using common components to pull touch into a great number of apps automatically. Without a clear demand, their incentive to do so doesn't exist.'"
Oh no! You have posited a situation in which a part of my suggestion may not be optimal! My entire suggestion is therefore worthless and I should not have suggested it. I stand corrected, oh great one.
Normal typing sounds and mouse clicks are often at least as loud as you'd need your vocal click to be. If even that is a problem, you could always just press a button like normal people.
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The iphone is popular because they spent millions on tv advertising, and made things move using the accelerometer. Plus it's a toy for consumers, not people with large amounts of brain power.