I looked at the 6 pages of the 2nd edition (1997) on Touch Screens found in
Chapter 52 and sent the results to PJ. ISBN 0444818626 hard back edition,
scanned by Google I think, looks like the one found in Google Books, which
unfortunately omits several of the relevant pages (1317 through 3122).
From the
index you display, it looks like no more content is in the original
edition.
You could note one paragraph actual demonstrates a couple of issues
at odds between Apple and Microsoft 20 years later:
Touch screens
have several disadvantages. Because the output surface is also the input medium,
parallax effects are introduced. Also, the user must sit within arm's reach of
the display. These characteristics of touch screens may constrain both workplace
design and operator mobility. The need to repeatedly lift a hand to the
display may also produce arm fatigue. Additionally, the user's finger or arm
may block the screen. Another disadvantage is that the size of the user's finger
tends to limit target resolution. The takeoff touch entry strategy or a
stylus can be used to address this problem, but the pointing gesture then
becomes somewhat less natural.
You could probably dig around
and find all sorts of 'issues' the two parties have publicly claimed to have
'discovered' by sweat of the brow (and deserving of patent protection as a
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