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khenry
Who makes up the Gartner Group and why haven’t they all been fired? They just come up with prediction after prediction that means precisely naff-all. These idiots have taken time out from predicting the death (as opposed to the transformation) of PC gaming, and are now telling computer users that the humble mouse will cease to exist very soon.
Never mind the fact that this bold claim flies in the face of Microsoft re-issuing certain models of Intellimice favoured by gamers, nor the fact that even though it’s got that touch of Japanese cool, Nintendo’s Wiimotes are basically wireless mice by another name for use on your telly. Personally, I don’t want a Minority Report-styled touch screen for my computing, not when keyboards are less than a fiver and now wired optical mice hover around a tenner. A replacement Wheel Mouse Optical set me back £11 last month. It’s hardly co-incidence that all these irritating predictions about new technology only happen when the economy of scale has made the existing stuff affordable.
So as far as I’m concerned, the humble mouse is as safe as the paper in your office and your PC games.
It strikes me as being similar to claims made by people years back about the paperless office, which sparked the comment “The paperless office is about as likely as the paperless toilet”.