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> They'll say it sucks ass, and they'll be right.

And yet my wife will disagree hard with you, as all her fingerprints on my laptop screen will attest to. She always defaults to trying to swipe the screen instead of going to the mouse.

> Touchscreen computers have failed for a reason.

The only people who think touch screens have failed are people who actually use computers, and we are a tiny minority of the population these days. The majority of people live on touchscreen devices already.



Your wife actually swipes at a non touch screen thinking it is a touch screen?


Some people actually do do that, yes. It's a force of habit especially if they have another touch screen computer.




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