Probably because not everyone is a Samsung zealot, more so on TMO (or so I thought ).

In any case, my initial comment (that unwillingly started this whole resistive vs capacitive feud) was merely addressing my craving for that kind of screen, not that it'd be possible in this day and age (for whatever reasons), not that it should be a must, and definitely not that every single person on earth should be using it if it was widely available...

Now, would it be available as an alternative for some promising HWKB phone to come, I'd be all over it
Obviously, it won't happen, so I'll make do with what I can get, and carry on dreaming...