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This is cool, but is there really a demand for this? Didn't we almost universally switch from textured, real buttons to glass interfaces over the last 5 years?
by run4yourlives 14y ago
This is cool, but is there really a demand for this? Didn't we almost universally switch from textured, real buttons to glass interfaces over the last 5 years?
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not exactly pining for my old blackberry's keyboard. My display/interface iPhone isn't perfect, but this just isn't a real enough problem for me. Is it for you?
- DavidSJ 14y agoGlass is preferable because it can be reconfigured by software to fit the application, allowing dead-simple, focused interfaces rather than bloated, inflexible catch-all input devices. The tradeoff was the loss of tactile feedback, meaning good luck dialing a number, choosing a song, etc. while driving. Tactile glass would be the best of both worlds.
- koeselitz 14y agoAnd not just driving. Take the iPad, for instance - it's fun and kind of magical, but a lot of us dismiss it because you can't really do "serious" input on it. Even though I really like it, I have to confess that I can't really type that fast, nor is typing comfortable enough to do for very long. But if typing on my iPad were as easy as it is on a chiclet-type keyboard - just a step or two down from my laptop keyboard - then suddenly things would equalize a bit. And what is for many people the major barrier to using a touch device exclusively would disappear.
- anigbrowl 14y agoI don't want to look at the screen all the time, same way that when I type on a real keyboard I don't usually look at the keys (or even the screen some of the time). On tablets, i'd like the feel of a keyboard some of the time (without losing the real estate when I'm not typing), but I'd also really like tactile feedback for music applications, scrolling and stuff like that.