Comments on: Touchscreen Devices: Smart Upgrade or Shameless Money Grab? http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/touchscreen-devices-smart-upgrade-or-shameless-money-grab/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TechFreak http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/touchscreen-devices-smart-upgrade-or-shameless-money-grab/#comment-610 TechFreak Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:44 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=60696#comment-610 I think a touchscreen display only makes sense when you do not have another means of use. Like on a GPS, that makes sense because you only have one hand available and you need something that's easy to to tap and get what you want quickly. A phone that you carry and use in one hand a lot makes sense too. But a touch screen monitor? To me that is dumb. You know how quickly your arm would get tired if you had one of those at your desk? A mouse makes perfect sense there. <br /> <br />I think the Pre is a good idea, because you have the slide out keyboard for typing but the touchscreen for things like browsing the web, switching between apps ets. <br /> <br />I think that touchscreen technology has finally just come down so much in price, and it's a cool technology, that companies are finally able to take advantage of the wow factor here. Eventually it will likely only shake out to a few products that make sense. I think a touchscreen display only makes sense when you do not have another means of use. Like on a GPS, that makes sense because you only have one hand available and you need something that’s easy to to tap and get what you want quickly. A phone that you carry and use in one hand a lot makes sense too. But a touch screen monitor? To me that is dumb. You know how quickly your arm would get tired if you had one of those at your desk? A mouse makes perfect sense there.

I think the Pre is a good idea, because you have the slide out keyboard for typing but the touchscreen for things like browsing the web, switching between apps ets.

I think that touchscreen technology has finally just come down so much in price, and it’s a cool technology, that companies are finally able to take advantage of the wow factor here. Eventually it will likely only shake out to a few products that make sense.

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