This is the whole problem with developers/designers and their fucking delusional quest to make everything mobile-only.

Ever since mobile (touch) became the prevalent consumer platform, there’s been a lot of focus on developing mobile solutions. This is fine. Except these mobile solutions are also pushed onto the desktop, where they utterly fail. Touch software does not work on the desktop. It just does not.

Moreover, there’s a bigger problem here. While most of the content is consumed on the mobile, most of the content is created on the desktop. It makes sense. The desktop is an infinitely superior platform for writing and image processing. The full keyboard + mouse combo and the multi-application usability beat all and any touch solution.

Exactly. Almost everything is created and will continue to be created on a real desktop machine at least for the next 20 years and likely far longer than that. Touch is horrifically bad and completely unusable on the desktop.

I know for some reason that it’s hard to convince asslown designers that a phone and a 30″ monitor aren’t the same thing, but they just aren’t. Never will be.