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We had physical buttons for decades. That required a certain amount of deliberate physical action and force by a person to press the doorbell. Now designers an
by albert_e 1y ago
We had physical buttons for decades. That required a certain amount of deliberate physical action and force by a person to press the doorbell.
Now designers and manufacturers have decided that everyone wants and needs touch sensors.
Sacrifice in the process -
Inadvertent triggers and lack of tactile feedback.
- beerandt 1y agoStill miss the keyboard on my HTC Tilt2
- thayne 1y agoIndeed. Especially as I get older and my accuracy on a virtual touchscreen keyboard gets worse.
- franga2000 1y agoThey didn't even decide that we want them, from what I've heard, capacitive "buttons" are simply cheaper as they require not additional parts.
- neuronic 1y agoYes, now the cheap cooking stoves have touch interfaces which is an OBVIOUSLY bad idea, much worse even than touch buttons in cars. The expensive professional stoves however...
- ahoka 1y agoExpensive stoves also have touch screen, just with much better UX.
- Symbiote 1y agoThe touch buttons on my stove are easy to clean, but I think that's the only advantage.
- rlpb 1y ago> The expensive professional stoves however... …have people whose job it is to clean everything every day anyway.
- tirant 1y agoThey are cheaper and they pass IPXX requirements on dust/water protection easily. But they seem to be good enough because customers, despite some complaints, keep buying devices with capacitive buttons.
- astrobe_ 1y agoAlso, mechanical stuff eventually wears out - at best with good quality ones, the product becomes obsolete before they do. For instance potentiometers [1] used for volume control on stereos rust over time and eventually become unusable. So there's a durability argument too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometer
- jimnotgym 1y agoIn the case of cars, isn't it simply that there is no other option on the market?
- voidUpdate 1y agoI didn't realise that it was a touch sensors, and was wondering through the article how on earth a slug was pushing the buttons to bell people, and maybe somehow its slime was conductive enough to get inside and short things?
- skeezyboy 1y agoif you look on the top of its head its got two arm like appendages that it can touch things with, probably did it with those
- inkcapmushroom 1y agoThose are its eye stalks. I don't imagine pressing with a lot of force on its eyestalks is something a slug likes to do, but then again I haven't asked any yet.
- skeezyboy 1y agoit was ringing the bell somehow, what else could it have been? even a particularly fat slug would have trouble pressing the bell as its vertically aligned.