The Future of the Macintosh
It seems to me that Steve Job’s application of Ockham’s Razor will continue.
The keyboard will be abolished and we will all have to communicate with our Macs in morse code using the single mouse button.
Hmmm.
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Well, the original Mac was introduced with a one-button mouse so that the idiots^W executives at whom it was targeted “couldn’t press the wrong button” (I still have their brochure making this very point!) so this is at least consistent…
Personally, I work almost exclusively with British computers — British-invented chipset, British-written Operating System, and no Microsoft or Apple ingredients at all. Gives me the edge in what I do, especially responding on-the-fly in the Council Chamber.
I still have a Master 128 in the attic, but I admit I do not remember an Acorn Portable machine.
My first computer was an Acorn A3010. The RISC OS machines were fantastic. Interestingly, the technology behind them - RISC chips - is now used in just about every mobile phone in the world. The concept was sound but was beaten by IBM-compatible PCs’ dominant market share.
As to Macintosh…
For some users, the simplicity is welcome. I have, in the past, used computers with two keyboards, a mouse, a tablet and two monitors. That made it easy to have one keyboard just for typing, one for shortcuts, one monitor for layout and one finding resources. The idea that smaller is always easier simply doesn’t hold up.