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So I’m writing a small Windows application, and I’m seeing many places where I could make life easier for touchscreen users (through things like swipes and multi-touch in Windows 7). However, is it worth it? Are touchscreen computers widespread enough for me to care? Or should I wait a year or two?
I can’t actually disclose what I’m writing, but let’s just say it’s an interface enhancement for power users. 🙂
Touchscreen PCs are still rare, this article for example estimates their market share at less than 0.1% in India (haven’t found any recent estimates of worldwide numbers, but I have no reason to think they’d be enormously different). However, the effort to support them well may be low enough, with possible upsides of gaining niche appeal among users of such computers and of being well-poised if and when they suddenly take off in the near future (and your competitors are scrambling to retrofit good support while you already have it).