*Sigh* The average consumer won't even care. You tell them capacitive is amazing, they'll cum all over themselves when they get one. You tell them resistive is amazing, they'll do the same for those.

At the end of the day, the mainstream is fickle, and more importantly, rather mindless. I mean, you're on the Maemo forum, no? You felt the N900's screen? I don't care how much firmware changes f'ed things up, that's a damn good, sensitive screen. And we already know there's Stantum screens that can do multitouch on resistive screens. Which is pretty much the only legit advantage the capacitive screen held. The average user would be more than happy with the resistive options that will soon be available, if only they actually cared about it as anything more than the words they hear ads tossing about.

The only other "advantage" is that you can't actually touch a capacitive screen with a semi-conductive surface without it registering a touch without you locking the screen first. 'cept that's really not an advantage, in my eyes. Ultimately, with resistive technology being as good as it is nowadays, they can be nearly as sensitive, and it won't be long until they are as sensitive, to human perception, as capacitive ones; and we already know that done right, they can support multitouch (vis-a-vis Stantum screens).