I think the difference is that you can touch physical buttons without activating them, making it a two step process analogous to activation on release on touch screens.
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 30 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 73,619,047 [37.6 TB]
Data Units Written: 47,465,560 [24.3 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,293,036,940
Host Write Commands: 657,873,357
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 353
Power On Hours: 529
Unsafe Shutdowns: 10
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0