[kevinconroy]

Even if it's a rant, it doesn't mean it's wrong.

At CES a decade ago, I got to play with a touchscreen prototype that offered tactile feedback. Press a button and the screen would push back and/or buzz (it's been a while, hard to remember). What I do know is that it _felt_ like I was pushing on something, not just glass.

At the time, it required a big area around it. Think ATM sized. For an ATM, it'd be awesome. I'd hope Moore's law would get the tech down to phone size by now, but here we are with more apps and no tactile feedback.

[PascLeRasc]

There's Apple's 3D Touch, which I think is pretty great but it seems like they're trying to phase it out. It'd be nice to have an iOS keyboard with some slight amount of tactile feedback - moving the cursor around with feedback feels pretty nice and makes navigation much easier than without it.

[stinky613]

Audi has this kind of feedback on their newer touchscreens

[imran3740]

> Press a button and the screen would push back and/or buzz

What do you mean by "press"?

"Pressing" a button (ie. pressing down on it) requires a bit more force than just touching it, so this seems like bad UX to me.

Even if you only were to have the device buzz as you touch any interactive control, I feel like that would start to feel real gimmicky real fast. There's probably a reason that technology didn't make it past CES.