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Of course, in Steve's infinite wisdom, he ignored that maybe people would use cursor keys instead of a mouse because they're vastly more efficient for a number of tasks. As johnnyg points out, there are some tasks you wish to perform "eyes off", and without tactile buttons, well, good luck. Nobody will ever, ever, *ever* win an international text-messaging championship with the iPhone keyboard, because your body just works better when you can feel where things are.

I hate the move towards touchscreen everything. Consider the grocery store: how many times did you hit "OK" or "YES" on a credit card terminal with raised buttons and had the button press not go through? How many times did that happen when you tap the "OK" or "YES" button on a touchscreen? If you're like most people, the latter happens a whole lot more often than the former, because you know exactly where you can touch the real button regardless of the angle you're looking at it from, and a well-designed tactile button will give you a "click" feeling when you have activated it. Touch screens are 0-for-2.