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Gesture Wars
the ipad is the mac of 1992. it has been used by apple to make applications "sellable" again, although at only a buck..lets see how that works over a decade,, cdroms /and flash entertainment now must be "reinvested" -relearned- rebought- even though the "products" are the same in basic "use"...
anyhow.. more of machine scale marketing... human scale left the building with the virtuality of the corporation and the dollar.;)
user interference-- its almost laughable that this is the love of the process patent and that's its sold as a better tool.
Things changed when I started using touch tablet devices, in my case the iPad. I was frequently looking at the same web site, with the same design, on both the computer and the tablet. I started having problems with scroll direction, and would make errors regularly. The visual cues in the browser chrome were similar to my Mac.
When I switched to Lion, I experimentally switched scroll directions. After two hours, 80% of my scroll errors were gone. About a week later I made nearly no errors in scrolling.
I totally agree when you say : "We are fans of progress, but enemies of confusion." but, the way I see, we can't have progress without some confusion first.
So, in the and of the day, gesture interfaces will take simmillar way as the pointer/cursor history. A lot of confusion, and some standardization based on market share.