If Apple really have delivered the world’s first truly useable touch-screen, a new generation of handheld devices will finally appear, as the rest of the world is spurred on to create devices as equally as easy to use, and hopefully better!

How good the LG Prada’s touch-screen will be is also yet to be determined, and it will be fascinating to compare them head-to-head, and then to see who else decides to deliver similar technology of their own.

Apple’s policy of vetting all third party content for the iPhone will hopefully guarantee that every third party app allowed for release (online sale and download for immediate installation) will have the same quality smooth touch interface that the rest of the iPhone has already displayed.

How successful Apple’s iPhone screen and touch interface ultimately ends up being, with the expectation that it will exceed expectations, a new standard – the next generation of human user interface design, in mobile devices anything else that can be controlled by touch screen – has finally been set.

People are looking at touch-screen technology in a new way, with the expectation that it should ‘just work’. There’s no stopping major progress and innovation in this area now, just like the innovation that’s running hot in renewable energy technologies, electric cars, Internet technologies and much more to come. From the standpoint of technology evolution, it’s a great time to be alive!

The prediction that we’ll see more technological innovation in the next 30 years than we’ve seen in the last 2000 looks like it will come true, as long as the world doesn’t destroy itself through war, environmental catastrophe, global economic meltdown, avian influenza pandemic or other doomsday scenario, which I hope that humanity is smart enough and or lucky enough to avoid, or at least avoid the doomsday aspect thereof. Humans always want a soft landing, although we don’t always get it.

The iPhone looks to being the first to truly deliver this ‘just works’ experience on an advanced mobile communicator, a bit like the ‘information pads’ or the PADD from Star Trek, but one that’s real, and not a TV show prop. Apple’s rumoured ‘Mac Tablet’ which was reported to be running on a similarly modified version of OS X and would have a larger screen could emulate the PADD concept even more.

If that’s the case, hopefully there’ll also be a Mac Tablet that combines the best of the iPhone interface with the ability to run existing Mac OS X apps, and one which could have touch-screen interfaces created for software like Photoshop, Office, iLife and any other software that wanted to implement it, no doubt according to strict Apple guidelines. Of your finger would serve as the mouse, but if needed, you could easily use a Bluetooth or USB keyboard and mouse for data entry and more precise mouse control.

But before all that, in theory, anyway, unless a Mac Tablet comes out at the same time to give Jobs the ultimate touch control lineup and the greatest worldwide publicity ever, comes the iPhone itself in June.

So what happens if the iPhone doesn’t revolutionize the touch screen interface and mobility as much as expected, despite the stunning interface we’ve all just seen? The iPhone 2 and future devices, whether from Apple or not, surely will. There’s no turning back now!
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