Instead, Gartner predicts that touch devices will be used for entertainment, and in business, for specialist vertical applications such as market research, law enforcement or field service.
This feels about right. But the industry is already moving on to the next field of research: gesture recognition. At HP, Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of the company's PC arm, the Personal Systems Group, predicts that gesture interfaces will overcome many of the obstacles presented by touch.
In some ways, this is closer to the HP-150 than to today's touch PC or iPad. And the idea of waving goodbye to the PC at the end of the day does appeal more than selecting Shut Down from the Start menu.
Stephen Pritchard is a contributing editor at IT PRO.
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