>Touch is magical. Touch is at best a second-class input system. It's never going to have the kind of pointing precision we got used to twenty years ago with

>Touch is magical. Touch is at best a second-class input system. It's never going to have the kind of pointing precision we got used to twenty years ago with mice, and it's never going to be comparable for text-input with a dedicated keyboard. We use it on our phones because it's all we've got, and as terrible as touch screens on a device that small are (my Samsung phone has an effective touch resolution of about 4x7 finger tips, and any elements smaller than that I can't reliably interact with), the alternatives are worse.