[kyrra]

It's not just cars. Other places I've seen this is large home appliances, with recent examples being inwall ovens and washer/dryer.

On the oven front, the high end GE ones[0] have a display. It looks fine from pictures, but when you're trying to interact with it, it's just slow. It has a design flaw of just an unresponsive touch screen. But buttons you want easy access to aren't always there. (This can maybe get better if they fixed the implementation, but right now it's terrible).

On the washer dryer front, I've been using two recently so I could compare. One is an old Maytag with a physical dial. The other is a semi new Samsung that has buttons but uses a display. With the Samsung, you always have to push and hold the power on off button. The Maytag you can just turn the dial and then hit start. The Maytag is just overall faster to interact with.

I feel like these large appliance makers see displays as a selling point, but then they produce very suboptimal implementations that are terrible and the downgrade from the previous experience. I really wish they would spend more time on UX, rather than style.

[0] https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-B...

[bradleyjg]

Making a good touchscreen UI—-from both a hardware responsiveness and UX perspective is very expensive.

I’d rather GE make an oven that reliably holds temp and leave touchscreens to the Apples of the world.

If that horse has left the barn, never to return, then what if they at least build on top of android?

[neoberg]

totally agree. In our previous apartment we had an oven with a touch screen and a stove with touch controls (no screen). They were our least favorite items at home. In a kitchen setting especially, it's very hard to operate touch interfaces.