> Touchscreens, in my opinion, are engineered specifically for nose-pickers and butt-crack scratchers.
Well, that is an old school take for sure if including all devices, so old that it fails to realize when we're really young children, holding anything is a challenge. It's why touchscreens on tablets have sold into the billions now for schools around the world. Yes, the screens get dirty and have to be wiped off, and that mustard or BBQ sauce smears do tend to alter the colors on the screen a bit. :-)
So, yes, your opinion still holds there. I get it.
If you've ever worked in IT or been a graphic designer, you know accurate color representation from screen to print is a challenge. In the CRT days to the point of using color calibrators that attached to CRTs to measure it. Or at least it used to be, I haven't followed the tech lately. Early LCD screens were particularly bad about it given their design limitations, especially the early laptop LCDs. Many designers hung onto their CRTs for that reason as long as they could since it was their livelihood.
I remember walking by designers cubicles in the days of CRT monitors and some had little signs taped to their monitors saying "DO NOT TOUCH THE SCREEN" and other similar, funnier ways of getting that point across. The finger-sized toy guillotine was always a favorite of mine. Those guys would blow a gasket if anyone touched their monitors, even the new cute intern. Probably especially the new interns. |
