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Other people need to type besides programmers. If touch-screen keyboards eventually become good enough., programmers will be able to use them too. And programme
by arikrak 14y ago
Other people need to type besides programmers. If touch-screen keyboards eventually become good enough., programmers will be able to use them too. And programmers may use some more visual interfaces, but pure-text will still be more powerful.
- crististm 14y agoTouch screen keyboards lack something essential: feedback. Such keyboards are not usable for anything other than casual typing; you're not going very far with them.
- arikrak 14y agoThey're not currently good enough, but they have haptic feedback, and they'll probably improve in the future.
- drothlis 14y ago> Touch screen keyboards lack something essential: feedback. Not forever: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/24/apples-research-on-tactile-feedback-for-touchscreen-keyboard-revisited/ http://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/24/apples-research-on-tacti... http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-patents-keyboard-with-air-feedback-technology/ http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-patents-keyboard-with-a...
- crististm 14y agoYou are missing the point. Any such surrogates are only getting you so far. To go anywhere near the real thing, you have to behave like it - not to mimic it. You're second link stands behind my argument.