Where can we giver suggestions to apple for OSX? heres mine.

[stefoid]

This is macbook , multi-touch trackpad related -

a) can we have iPhone 'physics' scrolling please?

b) the 4 finger sideways thing is not that useful the way it currently is. I would rather it overlaid the dock on the screen, organized in a grid fashion, centered on where the mouse pointer currently is. that would enable very quick app execution/switching without having to scroll to the edge of the screen and without having the dock eating up your screen space permanently. (I know you can hide the dock, but you still have to scroll to the edge to show it, which is annoying)

I am a new mac user and I dont get the current 4 fingers sideways thing - it only shows actve programs, but if the program doesnt have a window currently open, it doesnt do anything when you click on it? Obviously if I click on it, I want to show the program!! what use is showing me an icon that does nothing if I click on it? At least give me a message saying 'please dont click on thuis button again!

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Apple does not take "outside" ideas. They have their own think-tank:

http://www.apple.com/legal/policies/ideas.html

While your ideas may be awesome, game-changing, forward-thinking, and just plain perfect, that doesn't matter. You can suggest all you want, but Apple does not listen to outside suggestions (other than bug reports, etc.).

You can still provide them feedback, though:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

 

[fryke]

Btw.: What do you mean by iPhone "physics" scrolling? Unless we're talking about a full touch screen, it'll never feel the same. Two-finger scrolling feels quite good to me. You can set the speed etc., anyway...

 

[stefoid]

Theres no reason it would feel different.

 

[DeltaMac]

You say you haven't thought of any reasons why the touchpad should feel different from a full touch screen on an iPhone? I have some...
It's not held in your hand (think about it), so the 'slide and bounce' would be less intuitive.
The screen area is much larger, and the iPhone physics would be annoying at best, as you are only acting on a small portion of that screen, so again, less intuitive.
Now, if the screen were a touch screen, that would be different, but there would still be differences in the feel, mostly because of more screen elements and larger screen area.

 

[fryke]

I still don't get the term... What is "physics scrolling"?

 

[DeltaMac]

I think the OP wants the MacBook multi-touch pad to provide a physical response when swipe-scrolling that would simulate the action that you would see when scrolling on an iPhone.
I think you could call that 'scrolling physics'