i just wanted to put my two bobs in,

imagine you have to design an input method for portable, small devices.

first, you need to find out how people would use it, eg; how they interact with the device.

and there's only one thing that all our interactions have in common, and that's pressure.

not capacitance.

fundamentally capacitive is flawed, it only caught on because apple used it, and it became synonymous with "high quality" and "responsiveness". I'm not saying that the current resistive screens are the best, merely that pressure will, and will always be, the best way to register input from a human.

maybe capacitive is actually the best for input via fingers, but the number of times my mates stare with jealousy as i just casually use my pen/chopstick/toothbrush/whatever to do things, is proof enough.

technology is there to fit us, not to make us fit.

we are pressure-responsive beings, not capacitive ones.