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Absolutely - the impact of the multi-touch screen and 'touch-not-stylus' design really cannot be understated. I think people sometimes forget that there were l
by Closi 5y ago
Absolutely - the impact of the multi-touch screen and 'touch-not-stylus' design really cannot be understated.
I think people sometimes forget that there were lots of phones with giant touchscreens before the iPhone - but the problem was that they just weren't very good. Windows Mobile 6 dominated the world, and if they managed to get a capacitive screen and put a sensible UI on it that was actually responsive the marketplace might be very different today!
- t43562 5y agoI think you might have wanted to say "cannot be OVERstated" meaning so important that even if you tried to hype it to the max you wouldn't be wrong. Capacitive displays were new, I think, but there was a bias against them at Nokia since you could not operate such screens with gloves on. In a cold country like Finland that was seen as a negative which is why resistive displays were preferred. Oddly though, I almost never use multitouch now - only for photos.
- dcminter 5y agoPinch-to-zoom was a very visible feature easily demonstrated on photos. Then it was an absolute necessity on websites purely designed for desktop. I hadn't reflected on it before, and it makes sense now everyone targets mobile first, but it is a little surprising how rarely I need it these days.