It just seems that the whole form factor of computers needs to change to a tablet form, for many more gestures to be really useful and intuitive. Tog mentioned that the Palm uses gestures better in some ways that the Mac. Certainly there's been quite a bit done on Macs. So that Apple has failed to do a really good job of analog phone and computer is partly Apple's fault, and partly that phones themselves don't have enough good digital features. But caller ID, and other newer phone systems are changing things.
Lets hope that computers and the phone company can continue to work towards better integration.
Voice One of Apple's biggest problems in management is follow-thru. But that doesn't mean that you should stop all your efforts. But good ideas keep coming back. And it could be a couple more generations or breakthru's before we are ready next time. Extending the interface Now the most intriguing part of the article is in the discussion of a deeper relationship of data and physical objects.