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> Dear device manufacturers. Please used high quality switches with travel, resistance and a click „BIPPITY-BUMP“. Add a spring. Built in a indicator light within!

Essentially, you are asking what the avionics industry is already doing. Just look at the cockpit of a plane.

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Unfortunately, if you then look at the price tag attached to that plane, you'll know why no one else is doing it :/.

Planes are expensive due to the difficulty of certifying them and maintaining the right to sell them under various regulations, not because they're using physical switches.

Yes, but large price and low volume (and actual technical acceptance criteria) also means they're not gonna be obsessing over saving fractional cents on control panels.

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