Touch Screen Laptop¹

No one would deny that Jobs redefined the touch screen with the original iPhone in Macworld 2007. The original iPhone used sleek capacitive touch screen to pair with iOS’s awesome animations, and also used swipes to substitute taps. Why its use of two fingers to flash a large picture was impressive? That must because the touch screen brought “the way everything was supposed to be.” In 2008, The Economist published an article titled The Future of Touch, in which it argued that, despite the success of the iPhone with its excellent touch experience, it would be computers, but not handhelds, that would benefit most from touch technology.  More than a decade later, touch-screen laptops have indeed begun to catch on. However, contrary to The Economist‘s predictions,...