I don’t know about you, but I don’t understand why multi-touch vendors all assume that people want to work in the same paradigm as a messy, cluttered desk. I am all for sweeping things aside when I want to clear some desktop space but I personally don’t have things all arranged haphazardly over the desktop. They all tend to be aligned and nice and in easy to reach piles. I just don’t see myself picking up photos from a dog-pile like collection, reorienting them before flicking them on their way.

The Microsoft Surface demo is also very much like this but I just don’t get it at this stage. Maybe I just like things to be orderly.