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the library is named libt9, I believe the author is aware of this...
by rfl890 1y ago
the library is named libt9, I believe the author is aware of this...
- szszrk 1y agoThen why is a flip phone in the title? That was not specific to flip phones at all.
- numpad0 1y agoMaybe "T9" is trademarked?
- stronglikedan 1y agoBecause vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".
- szszrk 1y agoIt depends on region. Flip phone is obviously English only. T9 was used globally. My parents knew what T9 was, and so we're all my friends.
- thfuran 1y agoWill they? I don't think I've ever heard it called that before.
- 0x445442 1y agoYes they will. I'd never heard the term T9 before this thread. If I saw it on its own I'd think Arnold was attempting to make another Terminator movie.
- jmbwell 1y agoI figured other way around… Kids These Days might be more likely to have heard of a “flip phone” than “t9” and thus “engage” with this “content”
- foxmoss 1y agoI had not heard of T9 before starting the project and getting interested, I'm too young to have experienced owning a pre-touch screen phone. I don't know if the average HN reader knows what T9 is, so I went with a term that I was fairly certain most people would be familiar with. Is that so people engage with my work? I certainly found the project fascinating, I made the library to share that fascination. If I can get more people to implement and use T9 and alike systems I think my work has has been a success.
- jmbwell 1y agoNice! I clearly made an assumption that you were an Old like me :D
- pjmlp 1y agoPlenty of feature phones were not flip phones.
- blueflow 1y agoProbably in regions of the world where flip phones were the dominant form factor for phones...
- rfl890 1y agoYMMV. I rocked a flip phone (ZTE Cymbal) for 5 years and only just recently learnt it was called T9, in modern days I don't think it's such a common term.
- throw0101c 1y ago> I believe the author is aware of this... What about those reading the headline and deciding whether to follow the link or not?