The resistance to the virtual keyboard was the thing I remember most about the iPhone's introduction and first generation. Related to this topic, I remember Bla

The resistance to the virtual keyboard was the thing I remember most about the iPhone's introduction and first generation. Related to this topic, I remember Blackberry's answer to this problem was a phone that had a screen that "clicked" with a tactile response, which seemed ridiculous to me at the time, but a lot of people thought that was going to be a tremendous feature. I'm pretty happy the on-screen keyboard "won" in mobile. I never found the tiny buttons on full mobile keyboards to perform far enough beyond the virtual keyboard to warrant the physical space they took up. Seeing as nearly everyone who battled the iPhone early on was featuring at least a slide out keyboard, I wonder how long it would have taken manufacturers to eliminate physical keyboards as they have, had the iPhone not come along.