This seems to me like an example of a particular kind of myopia: because the author has been involved in the control-panel industry, he perceives that industry

This seems to me like an example of a particular kind of myopia: because the author has been involved in the control-panel industry, he perceives that industry to be a more important part of the world than it really is. the touch screen on the iPad is remarkably sensitive. Do you really think they did that just for gaming? Well, no, I think they did it for the user experience of the device as a whole, but even if it was just for gaming: Videogames take in $10 billion a year. Crestron and AMX together make about $0.7 billion.