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Tracy -

And I want choice not the closed ecosystems that Steve Jobs and Apple are rapidly building in which “Father Jobs Knows best”. Specifically I have worked with vertical touch screens for great stretches and have not experienced the problems you have.

But there a number of potential additional solutions:
1)HP and Acer offer desktops with sliding touch screens so users can adjust the screen to fit their best comfort zone or create a rest posture if working long shifts.
2)Many of the most popular graphics programs like Photoshop, AutoCAD, Aperture, Lightroom plus DTP programs like Framemaker, InDesign, QuarkXpress, XaraDesigner and others have extensive sets of keyboard shortcuts and automated actions which also supply respites from having to touch the screen constantly.
3)Finally I found changing my line of attack to the screen using stylus or not helped create new hand and arm motions. I susect just like for those trying to avoid carpal sysndrome, an ergonomic analysis could produce some best methods to reduce wear and tear.

And users will get a chance to see that because Windows 7 PC vendors have taken up the slack and produced some very, very attractive desktop and laptops with stylus aided multi-touch screen operations. I have worked with a Photoshop+InDesign combination that is the cats meow.

Wth Windows 8, Microsoft will bring a much fuller range of gestures to the desktop and laptop world – and then we shall get to see if Steve made a huge mistake by leaving multi-touch on desktops and laptops to the competition. Even the Ubuntu folks smell opportunity and are bringing multitouch screens and gestures to Linux.

I know Steve can do no wrong… just occasionally slip slide into area known as “unforced errors” ;-}