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>Their screen keyboards are garbage, Have you tried the WordFlow (swype or whatever it's called on other platforms) method on the keyboard ? Seems to work as w

>Their screen keyboards are garbage, Have you tried the WordFlow (swype or whatever it's called on other platforms) method on the keyboard ? Seems to work as well as Windows Phone did, which is pretty damn good. It's fine as a portable Windows PC to me. Great for travel, does pretty much everything I need, including Visual Studio. iPads are so much more consumption oriented that I can't see myself every needing one in addition to an iPhone. >If Microsoft invested a bit more in improving the tablet experience, they could really eat some of Apple's marketshare. They did with WinRT (not the tablet the API, now called UWP) and it failed because they decided to throw away backward compatibility of APIs. Windows 8 and the Metro design language was my favorite UX by far of the last two decades. This time, I guess they've decided to throw away the user experience in favor of backward compatibility :-)

hrktb 6y ago
> swype Swiping seems to be efficient mostly in english. I had a try on android and it was just exhausting while being unforgiving for CJK type input. Just to say, having a decent keyboard is still important to a lot of people. And Apple has effectively made efforts in this regard to have a good keyboard experience on the iPad.
- muststopmyths 6y ago
  I have very little experience with iPads, but I absolutely hate the iPhone keyboard compared to Windows Phone/Mobile. Windows 10 is unfortunately not in the same league as its mobile predecessors. Haven't used the Windows 10 on-screen keyboard much to be fair. I usually use the Surface keyboard (which has improved a lot circa 2017), but for prolonged work I'll attach a USB keyboard (mostly because I need an ergonomic keyboard to type).
pnutjam 6y ago
I have an original surface pro I inherited, it works fine except for the garbage keyboard/cover. Well, it did work fine until some recent firmware update made it so the wifi crashes any router it connects to... It's really a beautiful bug. This only seems to effect windows, I've been using it with OpenSuse with no such issue.

hrktb 6y ago

> swype Swiping seems to be efficient mostly in english. I had a try on android and it was just exhausting while being unforgiving for CJK type input. Just to say, having a decent keyboard is still important to a lot of people. And Apple has effectively made efforts in this regard to have a good keyboard experience on the iPad.

muststopmyths 6y ago
I have very little experience with iPads, but I absolutely hate the iPhone keyboard compared to Windows Phone/Mobile. Windows 10 is unfortunately not in the same league as its mobile predecessors. Haven't used the Windows 10 on-screen keyboard much to be fair. I usually use the Surface keyboard (which has improved a lot circa 2017), but for prolonged work I'll attach a USB keyboard (mostly because I need an ergonomic keyboard to type).

pnutjam 6y ago

I have an original surface pro I inherited, it works fine except for the garbage keyboard/cover. Well, it did work fine until some recent firmware update made it so the wifi crashes any router it connects to... It's really a beautiful bug. This only seems to effect windows, I've been using it with OpenSuse with no such issue.