“The consumer electronics industry came unbuttoned in Las Vegas this week. At the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which kicked off Jan. 7, companies from around the world unveiled myriad devices boasting touch-sensitive technology, rather than traditional push-button controls,” Catherine Holahan reports for BusinessWeek.
“‘The touch-screen industry is really getting hot,’ says Jennifer Colegrove, a senior analyst at iSuppli. ‘Since the iPhone came out, there are a lot of companies that did not have a relationship with touch screens before that decided, ‘O.K., I want to make a touch screen, too,”” Holahan reports.
“Sales of leading touch-screen technologies, such as those used in mobile phones and navigation devices, are expected to rise to $4.4 billion in 2012, up from $2.4 billion in 2006, according to iSuppli estimates,” Holahan reports.
“‘There is still a lot of room to grow in the industry,’ says Colegrove. Buttons, it seems, won’t be back in vogue any time soon,” Holahan reports.
Full article here.
Touchscreen on a microwave oven would be neat. I mean the whole front of the oven like a LCD TV. Much more usefull than an internet fridge.
I don’t blame the manufacturers, they need to stay on top of what’s hot.
But now shouldn’t someone spend some extra time rubbing all this in the face of the naysayers? Because the dipsticks who didn’t see this coming spent so much energy deriding Apple’s choices, only to have Apple’s choices once again change the direction of consumer electronics.
Yes, this post is rhetorical, because in this time of instantaneous news, there is simply no excuse for the intense ignorance of tech writers and the editors who okay’d said tech writers articles. None whatsoever.