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Touch interfaces are cheaper at scale. They're more durable and cheaper to maintain. It's far easier to manufacture a slew of screens and program the controls o
by rusk 10y ago
Touch interfaces are cheaper at scale. They're more durable and cheaper to maintain. It's far easier to manufacture a slew of screens and program the controls on to a Touchscreen than manufacturing actual real hardware controls. Controls also have moving parts which can break. For years having an actual real keyboard was the killer feature of Blackberries and my beloved Palm Prē, but simple economics won out in the end. There's many good things about touchscreens in these terms, but not for user experience or even aesthetics.
- coldpie 10y agoMaking your laptops out of balsa wood is probably cheaper than metal, but it's still a terrible idea.
- rusk 10y agoThat is a facetious and unnecessary remark. I hope you enjoyed your little troll dopamine rush.
- coldpie 10y agoI don't think so. Touch interfaces are such miserable UXes that I actively refuse to buy them when they are used unnecessarily, much like I would refuse to buy a laptop made of balsa wood. I hope you enjoyed your little high-horse dopamine rush.
- compuguy 10y agoI agree. It is sad that blackberry messed up a lot with the priv (overheating, the choice of the SD 808, etc), but the keyboard is really nice.