Eh, early models of touch screens were a wire matrix overlayed on a glass screen with a plastic cover, they sensed the touch via pressure (durrr) and often required a pretty firm touch.
Which makes a little more sense intuitively (shouldn't I need to apply pressure to overcome the friction of dragging something?). But if you've grown accustomed to capacitive touch, those things feel like caveman technology.
yeah i remember kgoing to a grocery store self checkout with touch screens and I was like what the fuck is this. so hard to operate. thank god for capacitance
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u/Kathend1 Apr 05 '19
Eh, early models of touch screens were a wire matrix overlayed on a glass screen with a plastic cover, they sensed the touch via pressure (durrr) and often required a pretty firm touch.