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It may be better in an overall-compromise sort of way, but a touchscreen is not better for typing. I still miss the BlackBerry, and basically just stopped bothe
by marssaxman 10mo ago
It may be better in an overall-compromise sort of way, but a touchscreen is not better for typing. I still miss the BlackBerry, and basically just stopped bothering to do any real text entry on a phone after keyboards went away.
- MetaWhirledPeas 10mo agoPeople who buy things disagree, in aggregate.
- anonymars 10mo agoYou could make the same fallacious argument about cars when they all took buttons away and there was scant choice
- MetaWhirledPeas 10mo agoAlthough cars have way more touch screens than before, they are not yet ubiquitous. With phones they have pretty much all converged on a single form factor with the only variant being size.
- marssaxman 10mo agoThey have no meaningful choice. To the degree that this does represent consumer preference, however, what it tells us is simply that touchscreen phones are preferred overall: it does not follow that touchscreen keyboards, specifically, are preferred for text-entry tasks.
- MetaWhirledPeas 10mo agoI feel like, over time, they have though. Blackberry was more than willing to keep the lights on well past the point of viability. Other competitors too. They kept trying to resurrect the physical keyboard popularity and it never happened. You can still buy niche phones with a physical keyboard right now.
- marssaxman 10mo agoDoesn't look like the Clicks Communicator is actually available yet - the website says it's coming in February - but it's good to learn that there will soon be a physical keyboard option once again. (Or was there some other device you had in mind?)