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Originally Posted by TheTree View Post
Of course, you also have to understand that upwards of 95% of people don't want to use desktop style UI's on their phones. ... Thus making a stylus nothing more than an inconvenience or waste of space.
My desktop has no stylus. Does yours?

whereas most capacitive touch screens have excellent sensitivity, high accuracy (not necessarily precision, which isn't needed in most modern smartphone OSs anyway),
I am not sure what you mean by accuracy then. If you can only determine pointer location with the 60-pixel precision (capacitive), then it is in fact the same as getting a dozen of location readings in the 60-pixel range (resistive).

Sure, you could argue that capacitive screens don't work without special gloves, but there isn't a huge number of people living locales with year-round glove-wearing temperatures, let alone people living in such areas that actually wear gloves every time they're outside.
I am afraid I will have disappoint you here. You see, not being able to use the phone for one season of a year is still a problem. And a lot of locales have glove-wearing temperatures for that long. Hell, not being able to use the phone for just a few days is already a problem.

Saying that modern phones are only for bloggers with ADHD and the uneducated is somewhere along the lines of saying that Dvorak is only for one handed people. (no offense to bloggers w/ADHD, the uneducated, or one handed people)
Funny, how the original poster never mentioned ADHD and yet, you are mentioning it. Do you have any specific ADHD-afflicted bloggers in mind here? =)

PS: Obligatory question: Do you own an iPhone?