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Volkswagen Admits Failure, Will Bring Back Physical Buttons
(afronomist.com)
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Well, touch controls on appliances make more sense because they should last way longer than mechanical buttons, and it's not dangerous for you to focus your attention on them like it would be while driving.
Sorry what lol
Mechanical buttons wear out, touch buttons do not
Lol there are mechanical buttons who still work who outlive any touchscreen alive today by 200 years, what are you talking about lol?
First of all, touch buttons don't necessarily mean touch screens. Second, survivorship bias.
First of all, I absolutely do not believe that a capacitive sensor + control circuitry + whatever firmware that requires + the OS that I’m sure is running somewhere inside the device + the myriads of technically unnecessary software + OTA update functionality + IoT (the S is for security) integration + enormous attack surface as a result of all of the preceding points is going to last longer or work more reliably than a robustly-engineered switch or rheostat. Second, planned obsolescence is a fairly recent “innovation”.