Nowadays, almost every second device seems to sport the touchscreen. It has become very common and affordable. MP3 players, phones, TV, PC, Entertainment device all have new entrants with touchscreen.

Common layman has begun understand fairly technical terms like captive and resistive interfaces etc, because of this "craze".

What I am interested in seeing is how long this lasts and where it leads to. Already wee have multi-touch and other interactive touchscreen control devices. I don't think it long before Adobe or Corel acknowledge this an launch a mobile version of photoshop and painter (officially, not third party software). WEE have many games coming for touchscreen enabled devices and many developers have taken up the challenge of creating free apps for the same. All in all, touchscreen devices have attracted so much attention that it has almost become a norm for a device to have touch to be acknowledged as a future ready device. Steadily and surely, non-touch devices are meeting extinction.. for better or worse.

Touchscreen is definitely the new direction the UI is going to take before 3D projection or at least projection take over - though that is still quite a while away.

What is your take on touchscreen?

Personally, while I enjoy it, I wouldn't want it on a phone. I really like clampshell phones (though they are almost near their demise - as demonstrated by the fact that no new flip phone has been launched recently and only a coupe are coming up. Its the "Slider-and-Touch" era), but that is mostly due to that fact that I don't really take good care of the screen, and a flip phone guarantees screen protection.