Re:Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
by famousactress on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:57PM
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I'd add.. I was surprised how quickly touch typing came. I'm not nearly as fast as I am on a normal keyboard, but still much faster than my thumbs on an iPhone. Certainly fast enough to write chunky emails or blog posts.. if anything, the minor slowdown is an encouragement to write more vigorously.
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Re:Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
by thought_alarm on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:47PM
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The keyboard is fine.
The problem is the complete lack of copyediting shortcuts. There are no keys for moving the cursor, or selecting next. There isn't even a forward-delete key.
When I write long text and long emails I will invariably need to go back and copyedit my work, and iOS gives me very little to make that job easier. (Android is even worse.)
It bugs me so much I actually drew up a prototype iPad keyboard [1].
3 years in with iOS and I'm still far more comfortable and productive writing long text on my Blackberry than on an iPhone or iPad.
Re:Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
by ZeroGravitas on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:46AM
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They probably need a new name for touch typing on glass, since the flat uninterrupted surface means you aren't typing by touch, and the size of the screen means you're almost certainly looking at the keyboard to some degree and touch typing implies you aren't.
Re:Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
by daladd on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:42AM
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I'm of two minds re: jwz's comments on the modifier key handling: (1) Yes! Absolutely! iSSH would be so much better if I could control my emacs with it (2) Why? that's not what it's for.