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Finally some of the stuff from fingerworks starts to surface as add-ons products for desktops. I've been wanting something to replace my long dead fingerworks keyboard, so I for one am happy.

Now... if only there were drivers for something other than just OSX.

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I would replace my mouse at work with this in a heartbeat, but I'm a .net developer by day and need those windows drivers. (I use an MBP at home)

I think they're missing a huge opportunity here by not providing those drivers.

Obviously an opportunity they have decided they don't care about, I just wish they did.

Maybe if enough people ask? Or the product is generally popular enough?

The iPod and the iPhone are only so popular because they embraced PC in all its ... glory. Hopefully they're already working on this.

The iPod didn't support Windows when it was released. Maybe Apple are doing the same thing here; I'm sure by not supporting Windows, they're able to get a better product out much quicker.

Fair point. It would be nice if they would at least commit to bringing Windows support in the future.

I can't imagine this would affect actual sales though, just another of example of when Apple's secrecy can be irritating for some of us.

For Apple to commit to anything in advance, let alone Windows support for a brand-new peripheral, would be evidence of takeover by pod people, and thus not nice at all.

Windows support for the original iPod arrived two years later.

Again, they were testing the market with the true believers. The music industry viewed the 2-3 million mac users back then as a nice microcosm they could experiment on. If it failed, it wouldn't get much press because back then nobody used macs.

Given Windows is suggested as an option on their machines, maybe they will write a driver. Either way I'm sure someone will write one for Linux.

Windows drivers will probably be included in a future Boot Camp update.

Drivers for the magic mouse were released so you could use it on bootcamp, maybe they're not that far in the pipeline.

Are those "fully functional"? Do they allow gestures? Even just having two-finger horizontal (well, 360-degree) scrolling would be great.

Some of us still use our FingerWorks TouchStream keyboards :-)

(and keep two spares, in case the main one ever breaks)

And some of us got to play in the original figerworks lab...

That's where I failed... why on earth didn't I buy a second? Oh yes, the price. Which is also why I don't pick up one off of eBay, they're incredible nowadays with some going for an easy £600 or more. For that price I'd rather buy a great monitor.

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