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Grombobulous • yesterday at 11:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Are you making this point from the context where you’ve never tried a touch screen computer?

This isn’t an unimplemented theory. You can head over to Best Buy right now and see what it’s like to use a touch screen laptop.

I feel like all this debate is taking place in an odd vacuum where a lot of us are talking about a bunch of potential problems with having a touch screen on a computer and all these problems are already resolved.

Maybe it’s similar to the whole iPhone duo thing where Apple users are just discovering all the caveats of a foldable phone, but we’ve already gone over all of it with competitors.


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cjarrett • today at 2:08 AM

In general the vast majority of folks that make these comments are exactly from that viewpoint. It was a valid concern a decade ago--right now it just makes them uninformed.