Smartphones, tablets, and desktops are kinda different. I don't want
a UI designed for smartphones & tablets, on my
desktop
Which I suppose is why they're not putting the same UI
on phones, tablets, and desktops. The Unity desktop UI isn't a touch UI. Anyone
who has actually used it can see that right away. It is however, a very
nice mouse and keyboard UI - much better than Gnome 2 in that respect. Working
with multiple windows for example is much easier than in Gnome 2. The keyboard
shortcuts are also a lot better. But Unity desktop isn't a touch
UI.
The touch UI has certain features which will look familiar to the
desktop UI, but the two are not the same thing. This similarity will reduce the
learning curve when using touch versus mouse-keyboard. It will also make it
easier to write apps that have different UIs but run on both.
Apple
fanboys shout that touch and desktop are completely unrelated. Microsoft says
that desktops are just big phones. Ubuntu is trying a third way by bringing the
two closer together without forcibly merging them. Don't worry though, if it
works then I'm sure that Apple will "innovate" this concept and patent it.
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