Looks like Apple’s Snow Leopard is a multi-touch OS

A few good Mac bloggers are digging up evidence that Apple’s Snow Leopard was designed to operate as an iPhone-like multi-touch operating system. For example, Expose looks to be “tailor-made for fingers,” according to Cult of Mac’s Leander Kahney. He also points out that the new virtual keyboard now expands all the way to full screen.

As I’ve been predicting for years, I believe 1) multi-touch tablets, convertable clam-shell laptops and desktops will all get multi-touch user interfaces; 2) Apple will be first and best in this space; and 3) it will start with a “new Newton” small tablet device, and grow in size from there until desktop versions are bigger than 40 inches.

I wrote two years ago that:

“Apple’s iPhone user interface is a glimpse of the future, not only of future Apple mobile computers, but desktops and the future of all PCs as well. It’s inevitable that Apple will ship a tablet Mac that works like the iPhone.”

Looks like my most frequently-made prediction is finally coming true. (Props to Cult of Mac and 9to5Mac)