This is (more or less) exactly what I have been waiting for. I actually was ranting on just this subject only a couple of days ago. Apparently the internet was listening.
Anyway, here's someone explaining why we need this (http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/), writing far more eloquently than I could be bothered with.
Yeah we need this. For every new version of a major mobile OS that comes out, there is the same band of idiot neophiles who declare that physical keyboards are truly obsoleted-- never mind that they said the same thing the same time last year, this time they mean it.
I just switched from a Droid 2 to a Galaxy Nexus. The GN is a sweet piece of glass, but Swifkey/Swype/etc does not supplant tactile buttons.
Now if they can make that screen deform into a model M keyboard, I will love them forever.
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Date: 2012-06-06 07:22 pm (UTC)I actually was ranting on just this subject only a couple of days ago. Apparently the internet was listening.
Anyway, here's someone explaining why we need this (http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/), writing far more eloquently than I could be bothered with.
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Date: 2012-06-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-06-06 09:02 pm (UTC)I just switched from a Droid 2 to a Galaxy Nexus. The GN is a sweet piece of glass, but Swifkey/Swype/etc does not supplant tactile buttons.
Now if they can make that screen deform into a model M keyboard, I will love them forever.
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Date: 2012-06-07 05:28 am (UTC)Cheese. Probably. It would seem likely.