More Evidence That Snow Leopard Is a Touchscreen Operating System

"Here’s rock-solid proof that Snow Leopard is designed for touchscreens

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"Yeah, I know, this isn’t proof that Snow Leopard is designed for a touchscreen device"

That's an absurd conclusion (which is not to say that it's necessarily untrue that there'll be touchscreens for OS X soon, but this drag-resizable keyboard has nothing explicitly to do with touchscreens). Previously, you could make the keyboard 2.5x bigger than the 'small' screenshot by clicking the green zoom button. Now, you can drag the corner of the window to make it an arbitrary size, but the rendering is identical to the prior version. This is nothing more than a trivial incremental change, if perhaps a welcome one for people working with 30" monitors etc.

Psychological fact # If you want something, your mind will bend the facts so as to see things the way you want to see and not the way it truly is.

The weird thing about this is that to make it bigger you drag the corner, which would be hard to accurately "click" with your finger. Also, if it's to be used widescreen, it takes up almost all of the screen, much more than the iPhone's keyboard (although similar to the widescreen keyboard on the iPhone).

To me, it seems more like they are just doing what they should do and making it resizable like everything else, and putting it in a more findable place.

It's the same keyboard as previous versions of OS X. The UI DPI is just scaled up (you can do that in Leopard, too).

A resizable normal keyboard application is just not Apple's style. I can see them adding a hardware key and a popup, like Dashboard or the Dock. They can add more flashiness (pop-in, fade, whatever) that way, and it's also less confusing if the keyboard is tied to one button.

If you click the green zoom button, the Leopard keyboard viewer looks (apparently) pixel for pixel identical.

I only have one wish: Apple use OSX, not the iPhone OS, for their tablet.

Everything else is secondary.

it doesn't look good enough to be the touch keyboard they'd roll with for their first tablet OS. not up to their standard.