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If we embraced this philosophy none of us would be typing quickly on touch screen phones. Steve Jobs knew it beat a physical keyboard, and when pressed by peop

If we embraced this philosophy none of us would be typing quickly on touch screen phones. Steve Jobs knew it beat a physical keyboard, and when pressed by people who complained about the new iPhone's touchscreen keyboard, he grinned and said "You'll get used to it." And oh boy, did they ever.

_wolfie_ 7y ago
And I still didn't, keep using physical keyboard and believe it's superior. Luckilly there still are phones with full-qwerty keyboards out there.
otabdeveloper4 7y ago
> And oh boy, did they ever. No, they didn't. They just stopped typing. Hence, bullshit UI's like Instagram. > Steve Jobs knew it beat a physical keyboard Yes, if by 'beat' you mean 'made it too expensive for general use'. But in general it was a huge blow to usability, productivity and general global intelligence.
ajscanlan 7y ago
> And oh boy, did they ever. I cannot wait until the MBP 2025 with the whole keyboard replaced by the touchbar.. Who needs tactile feedback?
danShumway 7y ago
But to that point, how many professional transcriptionists or programmers are using a touchscreen keyboard to do professional work now? Have we all switched over to touchscreen keyboards on our laptops yet? Your mistake here is confusing a consumer device with something designed for a professional workflow. Touch screen keyboards are, objectively, not faster to type on than a physical QWERTY keyboard. It's like arguing that because my mom got used to a using a cellphone for photography that physical lenses are obsolete. Again, this is (in my mind) something that mostly only happens in the software industry. A professional racer drives with a manual transmission. When automatic transmissions came out, nobody argued that professional racers were holding back the auto-industry. Meanwhile in the software industry, mention that your workflow benefits from corded headphones, and suddenly you're jeopardizing the future of progress.

_wolfie_ 7y ago

And I still didn't, keep using physical keyboard and believe it's superior. Luckilly there still are phones with full-qwerty keyboards out there.

otabdeveloper4 7y ago

> And oh boy, did they ever. No, they didn't. They just stopped typing. Hence, bullshit UI's like Instagram. > Steve Jobs knew it beat a physical keyboard Yes, if by 'beat' you mean 'made it too expensive for general use'. But in general it was a huge blow to usability, productivity and general global intelligence.

ajscanlan 7y ago

> And oh boy, did they ever. I cannot wait until the MBP 2025 with the whole keyboard replaced by the touchbar.. Who needs tactile feedback?

danShumway 7y ago

But to that point, how many professional transcriptionists or programmers are using a touchscreen keyboard to do professional work now? Have we all switched over to touchscreen keyboards on our laptops yet? Your mistake here is confusing a consumer device with something designed for a professional workflow. Touch screen keyboards are, objectively, not faster to type on than a physical QWERTY keyboard. It's like arguing that because my mom got used to a using a cellphone for photography that physical lenses are obsolete. Again, this is (in my mind) something that mostly only happens in the software industry. A professional racer drives with a manual transmission. When automatic transmissions came out, nobody argued that professional racers were holding back the auto-industry. Meanwhile in the software industry, mention that your workflow benefits from corded headphones, and suddenly you're jeopardizing the future of progress.