Barnes: Touchscreens made internet engagement significantly more personal than keyboards
Phin Barnes · Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 29:28
Phin Barnes, a venture capitalist, discusses how touchscreen hardware changed user intimacy with computing and drove product design trends.
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“Your engagement with the Internet has become much more sort of personal and intimate based on touchscreens rather than keyboards and mice.”
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