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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by BurningFrog on Sunday November 03, 2024 @11:39AM (#42034053)
If there are enough buttons, yes.

Toyota makes 10 million cars a year.

Another angle is that you can add/remove/relabel software buttons later. Hardware decisions are much more final.

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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by dwelch91 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @12:24PM (#42034429)
When I worked at Toyota (well, NUMMI) in the '90s, the engineers from Toyota Japan that told me: "I'd kill my mother to save $1 on each car produced." Yes, at Toyota's scale, $1/car is a lot of money.
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