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I'd add.. I was surprised how quickly touch typing came. I'm not nearly as fast as I am on a normal keyboard, but still much faster than my thumbs on an iPhone.
by famousactress 16y ago
I'd add.. I was surprised how quickly touch typing came. I'm not nearly as fast as I am on a normal keyboard, but still much faster than my thumbs on an iPhone. Certainly fast enough to write chunky emails or blog posts.. if anything, the minor slowdown is an encouragement to write more vigorously.
- megablast 16y agoI expected bad things as well, but it very useful. You get used to not pressing as hard as you would on a normal keyboard, since you don't have to depress any buttons.
- thought_alarm 16y agoThe keyboard is fine. The problem is the complete lack of copyediting shortcuts. There are no keys for moving the cursor, or selecting next. There isn't even a forward-delete key. When I write long text and long emails I will invariably need to go back and copyedit my work, and iOS gives me very little to make that job easier. (Android is even worse.) It bugs me so much I actually drew up a prototype iPad keyboard [1]. 3 years in with iOS and I'm still far more comfortable and productive writing long text on my Blackberry than on an iPhone or iPad. [1] http://a.imageshack.us/img16/425/ipadarrowkeys.png http://a.imageshack.us/img16/425/ipadarrowkeys.png
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThey probably need a new name for touch typing on glass, since the flat uninterrupted surface means you aren't typing by touch, and the size of the screen means you're almost certainly looking at the keyboard to some degree and touch typing implies you aren't.
- daladd 16y agoI'm of two minds re: jwz's comments on the modifier key handling: (1) Yes! Absolutely! iSSH would be so much better if I could control my emacs with it (2) Why? that's not what it's for.