Comment Re:Subjective (Score 1) 603
Simon was a talentless, business asshole that took an idea that was *already* proven and thought he could make money on it by copying it...
Frankly, I'll agree with you that the 10/gui interface may not pan out. I wouldn't know for sure I haven't had the chance to use it. But the idea that only incremental improvements are worth developing for is ridiculous. Your attitude about new things is pretty much in line with most people, though. Henry Ford said that if he listened to what people wanted he'd have made faster horses. (paraphrasing). Sometimes it takes big changes to move technology along, no one is forcing you to be an early adopter. Further, new interfaces like 10/gui have more value than their possibility as a mouse and keyboard replacement. Multi-touch technology is not going anywhere, maybe some of the ideas they have are good enough to be used in part, if not in whole... Google wave for instance was a 'failed' platform but many pieces of that tech made it into other google products and really improved them, like multi-user editing in docs. Finally, you should consider the possibility that people other than you might have different opinions about what interface works best for them. There doesn't have to be one universal interface for each person, let alone for each type of hardware platform.