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>Text selection on mobile is trash Doesn't have to be - Blackberry BB10 had damn near solved it. I think they had some patents on it, but these should have exp
by ahartmetz 11mo ago
>Text selection on mobile is trash
Doesn't have to be - Blackberry BB10 had damn near solved it. I think they had some patents on it, but these should have expired, and I noticed some corresponding changes in Android. But it's still far from being as good as BB10. What BB10 had was a kind of combined cursor and magnifying glass that controlled really well, plus the ability to tap the thing left or right to move one letter at a time.
- johanyc 11mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-XrtAmRuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-XrtAmRuk it doesn't look very easy to use in the demo tbh
- ahartmetz 11mo agoIt looks like the thing that I remembered appears at 2:06 and later. I also tried to find a video example when I wrote my post and didn't find anything. Seems like very few people get excited about text selection.