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> Mobile devices were originally designed for consumption. They weren’t and then they were. Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry were all devoting around half their use
by aranchelk 3y ago
> Mobile devices were originally designed for consumption.
They weren’t and then they were. Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry were all devoting around half their user-facing surface area to content creation with physical keyboards.
Near then end Nokia did make some really nice Linux-powered slide out keyboard devices. Best of both worlds if not for their thickness.
- dredmorbius 3y agoAnd before Palm had a keyboard, it had Graffiti, which could share screen space with display. It took a short period of training but was actually quite good. Far better than onscreen keyboards. I wouldn't recommend Graffiti for, say, trying to access a Linux shell. But for writing text, and editing it, it was serviceable in ways that current touchscreen devices aren't.