It’s just cheaper to have a one screen that can be configured with a code change to do everything rather than physical buttons that need a full hardware change to do something else.
Though, why the hell everything has to get smaller, thinner, lighter. Like whats wrong with size and weight? Heavier and bigger things have more tactile feel to it. I can feel I’m actually using something rather than just pretending to be a mime.
Somewhere along the line we lost the virtue of do one thing well. Do it right, move on, do something else right. If you need complexity plug some right things together.
Now is the time of jack of all trades, master of none, stuff it into a phone whether appropriate or not. Get the job done as cheap as possible with the same generic crap. Do you want your airplane pilot using only a touchscreen ? Why should it be different for a spaceship, a car, an audio engineer ?
A steering wheel, once learned, is a wonderfully flexible interface that meshes with human intuition, throw rock left, rock go left, we have brain circuits devoted to this stuff, it works. Tactile interfaces can and should speak to our evolutionary core. Let’s take a step back, economic imperative be damned.
Partially probably yes. However, there’s also the issue of dealing with dynamic information. If you just need volume and AC controls, use physical buttons please. If you need GPS, media library controls, phone controls, texting, etc, which you don’t need at the same time, they can all use one screen, and that screen can have dynamic controls. A touch screen makes a whole lot of sense for that.
I love physical controls. There are some things that should never be replaced by touch controls. There are places where touch controls make sense though. Anyone who doesn’t realize this is choosing to be ignorant.
It’s just cheaper to have a one screen that can be configured with a code change to do everything rather than physical buttons that need a full hardware change to do something else.
He’s right, but the reason is money.
It’s just cheaper to have a one screen that can be configured with a code change to do everything rather than physical buttons that need a full hardware change to do something else.
Though, why the hell everything has to get smaller, thinner, lighter. Like whats wrong with size and weight? Heavier and bigger things have more tactile feel to it. I can feel I’m actually using something rather than just pretending to be a mime.
Somewhere along the line we lost the virtue of do one thing well. Do it right, move on, do something else right. If you need complexity plug some right things together.
Now is the time of jack of all trades, master of none, stuff it into a phone whether appropriate or not. Get the job done as cheap as possible with the same generic crap. Do you want your airplane pilot using only a touchscreen ? Why should it be different for a spaceship, a car, an audio engineer ?
A steering wheel, once learned, is a wonderfully flexible interface that meshes with human intuition, throw rock left, rock go left, we have brain circuits devoted to this stuff, it works. Tactile interfaces can and should speak to our evolutionary core. Let’s take a step back, economic imperative be damned.
Counterpoint: if enough people die while adjusting their AC then humans will evolve to love touchscreens
Phone are getting bigger though, wish they were smaller again.
Screen is getting bigger, but not much heavier. Written from 500g rugged 1cm+ thick brick
Though yeah there should be different options for everyone, not the most basic popular stuff that looks exactly the same.
With a battery that lasts a week, horses for courses…
Exactly. It’s the same reason they’re being forced into new cars despite the fact that an awful lot of people don’t like them
Cheaper to ship.
I agree. I want heft.
Partially probably yes. However, there’s also the issue of dealing with dynamic information. If you just need volume and AC controls, use physical buttons please. If you need GPS, media library controls, phone controls, texting, etc, which you don’t need at the same time, they can all use one screen, and that screen can have dynamic controls. A touch screen makes a whole lot of sense for that.
I love physical controls. There are some things that should never be replaced by touch controls. There are places where touch controls make sense though. Anyone who doesn’t realize this is choosing to be ignorant.
…you can remap your buttons to do other things…
Physical buttons can also be remapped to do whatever you want. You can even make macros to get a button to do a sequence of things.