The Kin was supposed to be the “Zune Phone,” but rumor is that Microsoft gave the former Sidekick developers and Sharp too much levity, but starved the Zune team of essential input on how to adapt the Metro UI.

This.

Doesn’t one have to get a lifetime membership to the douchebag club to get one?

It’s probably meant for soccer moms who sit so close to the wheel that it takes acrobatic feats to turn it.

I think I can assume at this point that you’re fundamentally incapable of critical thought. Bye.

Yes, they can, dipshit.

LOL, that’s the dumbest assumption I’ve ever seen.

Yet, each one of those planes have manual hydraulics, dipshit.

HAHA, in what insane world do you think that touch screens are membrane switches?

If you manage to restore power in a life or death situation (like switching to a redundant power bank), you wouldn’t have to wait for the computer to boot. That’s the difference, and an important one.

Right. You think there’s a single manual override in that mockup? You’re reading WAAAAY too much into this sleek sales device.

You’re talking about it like the computer is in control. It is not.

Do you realize that all devices like smartphones require SOFTWARE as a condition to operate?

I work for one of the biggest hardware and software companies in the world, buddy. I can assure you that you are 100% wrong.

Prove it. I would LOVE to see this happen!

You’re going to feel really stupid when the production design is shown.

You do realize that the LCD screens in the shuttle are limited in their use, we still put manual gyrometers in the shuttles, and that those screens are but an island in a sea of manual controls, right?

Apollo 13 is a good example of why we never send someone into space without redundancies. This is just a beauty shot, and people here have waaaaay too little experience with hardware reliability to be assuming touch screens will do fine.

Not if you have an independent bus, which would prevent all three screens failing at once, and would be a necessary redundancy.

That is where research is done, not flight (which the ISS mostly does not do).