Apple, for example, has an easy-to-use touch interface on the iPad ... anytime you want to touch the screen. This feels a lot less useful than the 2-in-1 design. Finally, with detachable options ...

With pervasive smartphones and tablets, the touch interface is assumed for small LCD screens, and we’ve likely all poked and pinched at some screen, only to find it immune to our gestures.

If this doesn’t work, try the following solution. Open Devices Manager > Human Interface Device > HID-compliant Touch Screen (Your touch device). Right-click on it and select Disable.

"This will be the user interface in every BMW across all models," said Frank Weber, the BMW board member who heads ...