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A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT

Posted by timothy on from the they-sure-make-gps-devices-handier dept.

The New York Times has a story up on the suddenly brisk market for touch screens and the devices which can make use of them, which it says "has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications and in consumer devices." Besides the obvious (the iPhone, and Apple's use of multi-touch generally), the article also mentions the recent inclusion of Israeli company N-Trig's version of multi-touch technology in a Dell notebook computer, and some of the other places you can expect to see touchscreens instead of display-only ones in the near future — if the price drops quickly enough.

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  1. Wow. Completely out of touch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    we hear that it's cool, that's quite a turnaround but only from the M$ dominated technical press.

    I'm not sure what technical press you have been reading lately. Multitouch was cool the day the iPhone first shipped.

    Sure, there was a lot of hype about a very late to the party M$ table with second rate multitouch

    You don't even know what this "M$ table" with "second rate" multitouch is, do you?

    the negative press against iPhone has been constant and deafining

    Most of the negative press started the day Apple released the 3G, which has a lot of problems. What, are you saying that ArsTechnica and every other tech rag out there that's having trouble with the 3G is somehow bent on a campaign of negative press?

    And previously, the negative press was geared mostly towards the lack of carrier choices (let me guess, you work for AT&T or something?) and wireless speed. This is the "Jesus Phone", it sold millions of units in the first few months. What the hell are you talking about?

    Most of it was recycled talking points from the effort to kill Palm, RIM and other worthy competitors.

    Oh, yes. You are implying that this is a Microsoft conspiracy. Holy smokes.

    Yes, practical touch computing is that old and the screens have been as cheap as a $40 Zire.

    That's not multitouch, those are pressure-sensitive LCDs. How out of touch can you be here? Are you even for real?

    Yes, multitouch is a nice wrinkle on it.

    Haha, no, it's not a nice "wrinkle", it's a revolutionary step upwards from LCDs. WTF?

    No, it does not solve the primary problem with tablet computers - they see where your hand rests

    You have never used a tablet PC, have you?

    It's nice to finally see a mainstream review that does not complain about iPhone in one way or another

    Is it really? Now you're just karma whoring, aren't you? Oh yes. But now you're suddenly concerned about poor Apple, the iPhone, its alleged negative press and the "M$" factor? Please... Here's another one. Yeah, you sure like Apple.

    but it the real difference is that it's from Dell on Vista.

    Ah, that's where you should have started.

    I'm not impressed.

    All things considered, that's quite the understatement.