Sometimes I think I'm the only one who prefers resistance-based touch screens to the capacitive kind.

Every iPhone or iPad, or Android equivalent, that I've ever used has about a 50% input failure rate, where it either completely botches my input or partially does so, to the point where I get erratic behavior. And it's not just me either; the number of times I see people wrestling with their phone while I'm watching over their shoulder borders on hilarious. They don't complain though because they don't have the self-awareness to even recognize that it's a problem.

With a resistance screen that only accepts input from a stylus-- versus any part of my hand or finger that might inadvertently make contact or even get close to the display-- I've seen a 0% input failure rate. From an input perspective, I'd take an old, firm, hard plastic Palm Pilot display, or the Wii U gamepad, over any contemporary slatephone or tablet display, any day of the week.

I've tried to compromise with capacitive styluses, and while they help, I still find the screens and devices to be unacceptably finicky, especially considering that the displays often run right up to the edges of the casing, making it so easy to inadvertently trigger input.

The rise of capacitive screens is one area where I think the tech industry has gone completely off into the weeds. It's a perfect example of the victory of form over substance, of appearance over function, of marketers over engineers.