One major problem with touch screen computers is a lack of idea how best they should be used and the screen position. Ergonomically a vertical screen results in painful arms anyway, so the best position is actually where your keyboard is now, with a slight tilt up away from you and you looking slightly downwards. In other words the position you would most likely adopt if reading a book, newspaper etc.
I was pointed to this in Wikipedia regarding the ergonomics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Gorilla_arm

Having asked this question elsewhere I am learning quite a lot as I don't even have a mobile phone, let alone one of these touch screen things of whatever name or flavour.
However, for the touch screen to be of use in any music software, the technical guys will have to look seriously at how to implement it into the programming and coding of it first, so come on guys get busy.

Touch screen in most other applications is with us like it or not, and we will have to deal with it. Windows 8 is aimed at touch screen, by Windows 10 there may be no input from keyboard or mouse available.
It is actually becoming a little scary, as I saw this quote from someone on another forum.

"I recently saw a young child who couldn't have been much more than about 1 year old who had a magazine on his lap in a waiting room. He was trying to tap, swipe and pinch every picture in the magazine and when nothing happened he gave it back to his mother with the all-encompassing comment, 'Broken.' I wondered what the world is coming to."

And we worry about kids not able to do maths without a calculator?

Last edited by Cornet Nev; 05/20/12 03:27 AM.