• TechCrunch, Friday, October 2, 2009 3:42 PM

It's Apple's world, and we're just living in it, according TechCrunch. The company's new-found distaste for buttons, therefore, means that the little tactile nodes are destined for the dustbin.

While obviously, MacBook trackpads have used some level of touch for a long time, this trend really started with the iPhone, which presented the first excellent use of multi-touch in a consumer device. Sure, Apple seems to be increasingly moving its products away from buttons and keys, and towards manipulation through a touchscreen interface, but it's near impossible to imagine home and office computing without buttons.

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