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Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ... by dpark on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:14PM (#12954841)
No, I don't think "lack of tactile feedback" is, by itself, sufficient to demonstrate that touchscreens are a bad idea for laptops. There's nothing I can see about laptops that make the lack of tactile feedback a bigger concern than it is for other devices.

Lack of tactile feedback might be a bigger problem on laptops, but the reason it's a bigger problem is not self evident.

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Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ... by khedoros1 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:17AM (#12956239)
> here's nothing I can see about laptops that make the lack of tactile feedback a bigger concern than it is for other devices.

Agreed, there's nothing about it that makes it a bigger concern for a laptop than other devices. Touchscreens as inputs are suboptimal on other devices too. They're uncomfortable, slow, and imprecise.

I'm a huge fan of physical buttons. Sadly, it's impractical to have a phone with a screen large enough to be useful, thin enough to fit nicely in a pocket, and have it equipped with decent input.

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