Is the future of mobile based in gestures?

Yesterday RIM (now renamed just to BlackBerry) officially announced BB10, their all new OS. BB10 is based heavily on gestures...but even in android and iOS gestures are becoming more common. Often, the major "official" players (Google, Apple, Samsung and the like) adopt 3rd party features after they have been tried elsewhere. Think about it. Apple and Google (Google moreso than Apple) are big on acquiring companies that look promising and could add to their services, as opposed to innovate themselves. It's safer, likely cheaper, and just much easier. More developers are including gestures

Swipe, the revolutionary typing experience's feature was one of it's kind back in 2011. Then, in 2012, Swiftkey and Google itself added the option to use "flow", or "gesture" typing, turning the idea of taps into drags. Even the notifications on iOS and android involve gestures - drag down from the top of the screen. I know android best, and there are numerous examples of gestures there. Let's explore.

Nova Launcher has the ability to add gestures in it's settings menu, and quick launch an app based on a shape you draw on the homescreen. Dolphin Browser has had gestures for a wile now, letting you draw shapes or letters to quickly navigate to a certain web-pages (draw a "G" to go to google.com is the default one). SwipePad is an app that lets you drag your finger from a given corner or edge of the screen to open a "launch pad" array of apps, again using gestures to do so.

BlackBerry 10 is the first major player to fully adopt gestures, and I don't think it will be the only. Recently we saw Ubuntu show off it's mobile OS, which is also taking advantage of gestures.

More and more, it looks like the next big thing is already here - gestures. Both my parents have BlackBerry Playbooks, and the gesture system on there works well once you get used to it. Swipe up from the bottom to go to the homescreen which doubles as a multitasking page (recently open apps are previewed in the middle, and all your apps are a tap away at the bottom), swipe down from the top for settings/menu, swipe from the left or right to quickly switch through open apps, and swipe diagonally left/right from the bottom to go back/forward within an app. They work relatively well, and I'm really looking forward to seeing Gestures more often in the mobile world.