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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Articles for 2013 are still available? It was ~10% for all laptops launched in 2013.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/451973/touchscreen-notebooks-snag-10-percent-of-the-laptop-market-report-claims.html

In 2023 The penetration is ~20% so by these metrics they did double the number of touch enabled PCs. It just took a decade too long.

In fact in 2012 - Intel did a study that said 80% of users prefer a touch screen. https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-80-percent-of-pc-users-prefer-touch-screens/

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Windows 8 came out in 2012, and was in development years before that.

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012

Laptops is a subset of PCs. Only 10% of laptops were touch, not 10% of computers.

80% of users are dumb. A touchscreen laptop is an expesnive way to get your screen dirty.

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