Resistive screens have sub-pixel accuracy. First gen capacitative screens recommended UI elements be at least 1cm in size! Microsoft's bread and butter has bee

Resistive screens have sub-pixel accuracy. First gen capacitative screens recommended UI elements be at least 1cm in size! Microsoft's bread and butter has been productivity apps for so long, with dense UIs, that I honestly think designing for touch screens just collectively made people's heads explode. Of course the answer is you don't need all of Excel on a mobile device all the time, but it took Microsoft literally decades to accept this. Windows Mobile actually had some cool software, and this was back when everyone knew Win32 programming, but iphone had that sweet sweet app store and I'd guess that within a few years the number of ObjC developers grew to be larger than the number of Win32 developers, despite Win32 having almost a multi-decade head start!