Steinblogger

I just tried to click my MacBook Pro’s display with my finger. That says something about what an improvement the interface of the iPhone is over my laptop. No longer are you moving a mouse on one plane (your desk) while an arrow shifts on a perpendicular plane (the monitor)*. When you’re first introduced to a computer, you have to learn how to do navigate. On the iPhone, you are physically touching, pushing, pinching and pulling the interface! If you’ve ever played with a child’s developmental toy, you can work the iPhone. You don’t have to think about how it works. With the iPhone, Apple made “it just works” mean something more: it does what you naturally expect.

* Props for this thought to John Gruber, who described using a computer this way at his talk at the Apple Store Soho.