Capacitive Touch screens are proof all modern tech comes from southern California where "winter" means overnight lows in the 40s. Some of us are racing frostbite to send a text in the rest of the world.
Discussion
It's definitely a choice... Reflects a lot of Steve Job's ideas about how people should interact with computers.
If it weren't for him we'd probably still have physical buttons on phones... I'm not convinced this is an "inevitable" evolution of the tech
Just use your tongue. Then you can keep your gloves on.
I've used my nose but a time comes in a mans life when you can't see close enough to do that anymore.
Northern California*