Decide which statement (1-5) is either True or False.
UNIT 5
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I. You are going to read an article about prospects of touch input.
Decide which statement (1-5) is either True or False.
The touchscreen function on Apple's iPhone and other smartphones is spreading to larger computing devices like the new iPad, making it a popular feature among consumers. The spread of touchscreens to the workplace, though, will take far longer.
In a report released yesterday, it’s forecast that only 10% of desktops, laptops and tablets used by knowledge workers in 2015 will have touchscreens, up from almost zero today.
For the past 20 years or so, tablet and personal computers with touch and pen (or stylus) input capablities were used strictly in specific vertical industries, such as health care, retail and field service.
Kiosks with touchscreens have become widely available as well, but those are designed mostly for use by a company's customers, not its workers.
The success of multi-touch features on various smartphones and the introduction of the iPad tablet has set off speculation that touchscreens could spread quickly to corporate users.
However, the technology faces slow adoption in industry at least partly due to "adoption barriers" caused by large numbers of today's workers accustomed to using a keyboard and mouse.
In addition, coverting to touchscreens would be costly for companies, which would have to upgrade hardware and office applications.
Consumers, and the education market, would likely be the earliest adopters of touch-enabled desktops, laptops and tablets.
In addition, low-cost touchscreen-enabled devices could be targeted at young children entering school, allowing them to see direct manipulation of icons on a screen as a natural way to interact with a computer.
Currently some school districts are already seeking to buy touch and pen-input in a single device, since pen-input can be used to annotate detailed class material.
Consider this as the precursor to a major upcoming generational shift in how users relate to their computing devices. With the "expected widespread adoption of touch by education... an entire generation will graduate within the next 10 to 15 years for whom touch input is totally natural.
For business users, progress toward touch capabilities will evolve incrementally, rather than burst forward because of some killer app. As with many recent technology advances, touch adoption will be led by consumers and only gradually get accepted by the enterprise.
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1. Multi-touch features have been successfully used on various smartphones and on a new iPad.
2. Touchscreeen-enabled devices could be targeted at knowledge workers.
3. The technology slow adoption in industry can be attributed to the habit of using conventional
input devices.
4. Business will pioneer the widespread adoption of touch technology.
5. Touchscreens are quite common today and the function will become leading among
knowledge workers by 2015.
II. Find Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations from the text:
touchscreen; touch and pen (or stylus) input; multi-touch features; touchscreen-enabled devices;
upgrade hardware; evolve incrementally; knowledge workers; desktops, laptops and tablets;
precursor.
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