and yet tactile buttons remain superior to any touch screen
people who think otherwise were never good with tactile inputs either so they just can’t tell the difference
@deprecated Touch screens are the perfect example of a Rube-Goldberg innovation: more complex but less practical. When you require more work to get an inferior product, why do it? But oh, we have to be cutting edge! So adopt this technology because it is new!
Reminds me of a guy on Twitter who was stuck in the dark in his apartment because his "smart" lightswitch required an internet connection to function. If only we had physical switches that could do the same thing.
@MischievousTomato @deprecated @velartrill That's how it should be. Only supplemental to the primary operation. There is a strong obsession with voice activated and other such technologies with some people who want to do away with buttons. I remember some soy-filled "ad" (or whatever you woulf call it) on NPR saying "buttons are so overrated" when talking about using Alexa. No, no they are not. Voice activation is another example of unnecessary tech that is inferior and obtuse as well.
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@houseoftolstoy voice & touch shit has to die. i have appliances which don't register ~75% of key presses because touch. not even ultra cheap ones.
funnily enough, it's often asian companies who build sane stuff again. e.g. there is new well built audioplayer hardware, which is supported by rockbox, from random asian companies. maybe i can have a sane replacement if my sansa clip breaks.
