[bratsche]

> It seems like these things would be great on an iPad or something like that, but what Linux users are really running Fedora or Debian on a touch device?

What you just described, sir, is a classic chicken/egg problem. Why would they design Gnome or Unity for multitouch users when there are none? But why would anyone use Gnome or Ubuntu on a multitouch device when the previous UIs were so mis-suited for that environment?

[pan69]

This is exactly the reason they shouldn't even be trying to get into that market. Competing with Apple, Microsoft and Google, why?

There will always be workstations. It would have been a great opportunity for Gnome to make the best damn workstation UI that ever existed (and they where on the right track with Gnome 2) but instead they jump on the touch screen band wagon in the hope of being adopted by device manufactures while in the process of doing so they're alienating their existing user base.

In the end, everyone loses.