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Do touch screen devices wear out in a similar manner as regular buttons?

Given a phone with buttons, it is obvious that the buttons become depressed with use and function poorly. How would the screen in a touch screen phone age?
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It depends on the type of touchscreen. The touchscreen on an iPhone uses the conductivity of your skin to determine where you touch (which is why you can't use it with your average pair of gloves). Considering the screen is glass (on an iPhone at least), it would take a long time for you to wear through that by dragging your finger around on it, unless you were exceedingly rough with it. You'd have to rub through the glass to wear it out.

Other types of buttons get worn out because they're a mechanical system and the moving parts can get worn out and stressed.