"With the keyboard installed, it is nearly impossible to perform the swipe-up gesture activating the feature, which leaves control of Wi-Fi, orientation lock, Bluetooth and other system functions buried in the Settings app."
No it really isn't. It is still a gimmick on those poor touch screens. The idea has potential, but all of that potential is still completely unrealized.
What matters more is how many times faster it is to type on the iOS touch keyboard than that stupid arrangement of tiny tic-tacs. The answer being, several orders of magnitude.
Swype style keyboards are a lot faster for me. It's also nice to quickly type out full words rather than a bunch of abbreviations for everything.
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Swype is pretty terrible.
Yeah, for you. Why not offer both, like that other platform?
Given how faithfully they've copied both the patented aspects of BB's keyboard design (the diagonally raised key surface facing the user's thumbs) and even the visual design (the bright bars separating each row of keys), I'd say that the chances of BB obtaining an injunction against the Typo's sale are better than good.
Apple offer plenty of choices and configuration options. Shut up TS.
Subjective at best. There is more that they don't offer, than do. For good reason.
Some things just suck. Apple does what bloggers do not...try everything for a while, and the ideas that sounded good but got annoying after a while or just didn't hold up to all use cases...get scrapped. And that gives Apple the clout to not include something, despite what a potential user thinks sounds good in concept.
Over the years I've established a lot of that on my own via jailbeaking. I'll install a tweak that from the description sounds great....use it for a while...then ditch it after I realize I didn't really need it, or it didn't enhance the experience like I thought it would, or it just wasn't as good of an idea in practice as it was in concept.
This is what Apple does routinely, and why the products are as top shelf as they are once they get out the door. They spend all year trying out the crap and weeding through it until the cream rises to the top.
Shut up and go away. We knew you’re a troll; we didn’t know you were incapable of reading.
Wait, who's the troll?
A constructive conversation would say "Actually, Apple has filed a patent indicating a keyboard similar to Swype might be in the future. One of their goals (see their current ad campaign) is to greatly refine the user experience and make sure everything is just right before delivering on new features."
But, no, you'd rather spew feces.
My point is that they should just open up the keyboard to apps. It's not like Apple is trying to control the entire experience, so why draw the line on the other side of the keyboard?
If Apple would just add a Swype-style keyboard option, you wouldn't feel the pull toward a Blackberry-style physical keyboard. I can "type" twice as fast and considerably more accurately on my Nexus 5 than on my iPhone or my old Blackberry. If you've never tried swiping, try it (and of course you'd get better with practice) before unthinkingly preferring Apple's current approach; it really is better.
I doubt they would since they'd have to pay a license fee. Swype is owned by Nuance. You can't just pull a Sumsung and release something exactly the same and call it something different and think its legal.
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I don’t feel the pull toward either. Swype is pretty terrible.
"With the keyboard installed, it is nearly impossible to perform the swipe-up gesture activating the feature, which leaves control of Wi-Fi, orientation lock, Bluetooth and other system functions buried in the Settings app."
No problem! They can update the keyboard!
oh. wait...
No it really isn't. It is still a gimmick on those poor touch screens. The idea has potential, but all of that potential is still completely unrealized.
What matters more is how many times faster it is to type on the iOS touch keyboard than that stupid arrangement of tiny tic-tacs. The answer being, several orders of magnitude.
Swype style keyboards are a lot faster for me. It's also nice to quickly type out full words rather than a bunch of abbreviations for everything.
Swype is pretty terrible.
Yeah, for you. Why not offer both, like that other platform?
Why not offer both, like that other platform?
Do you know anything whatsoever about Apple?
Do you know anything whatsoever about Apple?
Do you know anything, whatsoever, about being something other than a blowhard?
Do…
So that’s a resounding “No,” then.
Watch this and learn.
So that’s a resounding “No,” then.
Watch this and learn.
That's <sob> beautiful. Are you feeling "love and connection" right now?
Given how faithfully they've copied both the patented aspects of BB's keyboard design (the diagonally raised key surface facing the user's thumbs) and even the visual design (the bright bars separating each row of keys), I'd say that the chances of BB obtaining an injunction against the Typo's sale are better than good.
Apple offer plenty of choices and configuration options. Shut up TS.
Just be grateful that he does not have a Swype-type keyboard, that would result in twice the jerkiness.
That's <sob> beautiful. Are you feeling "love and connection" right now?
Shut up and go away. We knew you’re a troll; we didn’t know you were incapable of reading.
If the only thing you can do is strawman, I’ll have to ask you to never reply to my posts again.
Apple offer plenty of choices and configuration options. Shut up TS.
Subjective at best. There is more that they don't offer, than do. For good reason.
Some things just suck. Apple does what bloggers do not...try everything for a while, and the ideas that sounded good but got annoying after a while or just didn't hold up to all use cases...get scrapped. And that gives Apple the clout to not include something, despite what a potential user thinks sounds good in concept.
Over the years I've established a lot of that on my own via jailbeaking. I'll install a tweak that from the description sounds great....use it for a while...then ditch it after I realize I didn't really need it, or it didn't enhance the experience like I thought it would, or it just wasn't as good of an idea in practice as it was in concept.
This is what Apple does routinely, and why the products are as top shelf as they are once they get out the door. They spend all year trying out the crap and weeding through it until the cream rises to the top.
Do you know anything whatsoever about Apple?
Shut up and go away. We knew you’re a troll; we didn’t know you were incapable of reading.
Wait, who's the troll?
A constructive conversation would say "Actually, Apple has filed a patent indicating a keyboard similar to Swype might be in the future. One of their goals (see their current ad campaign) is to greatly refine the user experience and make sure everything is just right before delivering on new features."
But, no, you'd rather spew feces.
My point is that they should just open up the keyboard to apps. It's not like Apple is trying to control the entire experience, so why draw the line on the other side of the keyboard?
If Apple would just add a Swype-style keyboard option, you wouldn't feel the pull toward a Blackberry-style physical keyboard. I can "type" twice as fast and considerably more accurately on my Nexus 5 than on my iPhone or my old Blackberry. If you've never tried swiping, try it (and of course you'd get better with practice) before unthinkingly preferring Apple's current approach; it really is better.
I doubt they would since they'd have to pay a license fee. Swype is owned by Nuance. You can't just pull a Sumsung and release something exactly the same and call it something different and think its legal.
Blackberry is suing Typo for this keyboard.
I'll reply to whatever I damn well want thankyouverymuch. Ironic that you of all people would play the victim with all the vitriol you spew out.
I know that in a discussion exclusively about software, talking about hardware is a misrepresentation.
Or maybe that’s not what a strawman is.
If you can’t actually reply to it, however, don’t expect to be taken seriously.