Comments on: Microsoft SideSight: Should Apple Really Worry? http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-sidesight-should-apple-really-worry/ TheAppleBlog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matt Rooney http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-sidesight-should-apple-really-worry/#comment-30331 Matt Rooney Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:44:19 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=8036#comment-30331 All i could think of reading this was this passage, which i think probably predicts it: "The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams All i could think of reading this was this passage, which i think probably predicts it:

“The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive – you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.”

-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

]]> By: Scott Fannen http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-sidesight-should-apple-really-worry/#comment-25269 Scott Fannen Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:32:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=8036#comment-25269 More likely that we should all be worried (panic, panic!) - with a technology like this in future, you could theoretically sit to the side of someone in an office, internet cafe, coffee shop or ATM and record their keypresses. Great for password collection. Possibly great for whiteboard uses though. You have to believe that one day though, with all the patents MS are recording, that they might actually come out with something good - like a broken clock being right twice a day. Scott :) More likely that we should all be worried (panic, panic!) – with a technology like this in future, you could theoretically sit to the side of someone in an office, internet cafe, coffee shop or ATM and record their keypresses. Great for password collection.

Possibly great for whiteboard uses though.

You have to believe that one day though, with all the patents MS are recording, that they might actually come out with something good – like a broken clock being right twice a day.

Scott :)

]]> By: JS http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-sidesight-should-apple-really-worry/#comment-25271 JS Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:47:45 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=8036#comment-25271 Didn't I already see an Apple patent for something like this before the iPhone shipped? Found it. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/10/26/special_report_apples_touch_sensitive_ipod_ambitions_disclosed_in_filing.html Didn’t I already see an Apple patent for something like this before the iPhone shipped?
Found it.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/10/26/special_report_apples_touch_sensitive_ipod_ambitions_disclosed_in_filing.html

]]> By: David B http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-sidesight-should-apple-really-worry/#comment-25270 David B Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:18 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=8036#comment-25270 Great points, especially in that last paragraph. Great points, especially in that last paragraph.

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