Just imagine having to lean up and forward to the screen if you have a problem.

Far easier to let a mouse do the movements

I still think it would be a better touchscreen computer if it was shaped like an architect-table though!

“It’s not really that amazing an innovation—as an average user, can you really do that much more with a touch-screen, vs. a keyboard + mouse?”

Watching the average users around me go through the process of ‘learning the keyboard/mouse’ i think an interface which removes the need for the keyboard and mouse will greatly be welcomed by average users.

People who are already proficient at using the keyboard/mouse often forget that there is a process to go through. Ones you have gone through it you forget that it was hard. You forget that you were making mistakes that were annoying and sometimes even costly: “Finally done, now how do i save this file? Del for deliver?”

Maybe you went through the learning process as a child; a period of time when you didn’t really have anything better to do, so it was just a fun pass time. Or in college during programming courses; in this case learning the keyboard/mouse is what i like to call on-the-path. The computer is designated tool of your craft, to master your craft you master the tool.

But what if you have to do work that is on a different path such as legal work. Now the computer is a necessary evil rather than the default tool of your trade. You start learning just enough about computers to get your real work done. Since you never actually master it, you end up hitting the same barriers every day and the computer becomes this thing with a keyboard/mouse that you really hate but are stuck with.

You prefer to write your notes on a sheet of paper but unfortunately it must eventually go into the computer, there is that pesky keyboard/mouse again. If only there were some kind of computer that just worked like a piece of paper in a notebook.

The market is not designers, the market is

1) everybody who currently uses computers except for programmers, plus

2) every kid and adult who has not yet gone through the process of learning the keyboard/mouse.