iPhone OS

[Jesús Díaz Blanco]

> As Steve says,  the iPhone is "reinventing the phone".

He also said that the iPhone brings a new way to interact with  
technology/computers/whatever.

This is key, imho. I think we will see more multi-touch enabled  
devices from Apple that won't be iPhones nor tablet pcs. I see space  
in the middle and, as more people adopt "computers" in the home/daily  
life/entertainment space, there will be space for more bridging  
products [1] that will use the economies of scale that the iPhone may  
bring to the market. I see the technology moving into other spaces as  
Apple is doing their own vulcanian pinch move in existing and new  
markets with both AppleTV and the iPhone on one side and the Mac Mini/ 
MacBook/iMac on the other.

Funnily enough, I think Jeff Raskin was moreless right when he  
advocated specialize interfaces for specialized gadgets. Instead of  
that, though, what we will have will be general purpose devices with  
morphing specialized interfaces to take the role of specialized gadgets.

As a sidenote, I just hope they implement new materials on the next  
generation. Right now, there are nanotechnoogy coatings designed to  
avoid fingerprints and stains. They are in prototype stage now and I  
don't know when they will reach production chains, but, as trivial as  
it may sound, I think these coatings will be crucial for the  
mainstream adoption of all this stuff.

j.

[1] At CES 2007 I saw this computer by HP <http://es.gizmodo.com/ 
2007/01/11/ces_2007_hp_touchsmart_edit.html> and, while I think this  
won't be the ticket and the concept is not right, Apple will be doing  
their own show-n-tell by 2008.