Important as in “can I turn them on and have them work”. Everything vital is a button, four things that can be done with the phone can be done with touch.
Have you actually had a problem with the Bose capacitive gestures? Because I haven’t.
I don't own these headphones. I'm just reacting to your assertion that volume controls aren't important, which doesn't match my experience with my own headphones. (All my headphone buttons are hard buttons.)
You and everyone else disagreeing with me. “Important” as I in “I can use them all day without ever using a gesture control”.
How are you going to disagree with me having never touched the product? You literally NEVER need to use the capacitive controls, all the VITAL things are buttons. Does that wording work better for you?
> How are you going to disagree with me having never touched the product?
You claimed that volume and skip controls weren't important ("the important controls are buttons ... capacitive interface is for ... vol up/down ..." implies volume controls aren't important). That is what I disagreed with. I don't need to have used a particular pair of headphones to know that volume and skip are important controls for me. Same way I don't need to have used a particular keyboard to know I value having an "e" key.
Have you actually had a problem with the Bose capacitive gestures? Because I haven’t.