Multitouch interface coming to Mac?
Category: Mac
Apple is looking for a reliability engineer to work on “supporting multi-touch panel development with Mac and iPod hardware groups”. The job description on Apple’s job site seems to confirm that Apple is indeed working to incorporate multi-touch technologies into future Macs but the timeframe for this integration remains unknown.
In an interview with the New York Times in October 2007, Steve Jobs said: “..multitouch drastically simplified the process of controlling a computer“. It’s obvious that Apple is not quite done with their iPhone and iPod Touch multitouch interface.
Source: Engadget
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