> That means Apple will begin imposing all sorts of UI dreck on all of us, whether we want to use our screens as touch surfaces or not.

Since we can run ios apps on mac now, touch makes sense as the mouse experience is very meh for some apps.

Also, I would have loved a touch screen mac when my job involved building mobile apps.

Finally, I suspect apple will execute UI well on touch, they get to learn from everyone's early mistakes... Vista especially.