Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by paulryanrogers on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:32PM
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Just don't ever: grow old, break an arm/hand, become disabled, get weakened by illness, or be born a smaller person. Then yes, you'll always have an extra hand for off-wheek controls.
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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by ellard on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:51PM
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I'm a short guy who has driven my manual car while my right hand was basically a stump from having a knife put through it and having it bandaged up. I did drive slower in general as I couldn't shift as fast and it hurt to do so using the stump, but otherwise I was fine with one hand on the wheel.
For everyone else, we've had automatic cars for forever. There's also a video online of a man with no arms who learned how to drive their car without them.
Edit: changed to be specific about the one hand on the wheel.
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by jimmaswell on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:40PM
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Applies to manuals too.
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by badfrog on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:28PM
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It take about 1.5 seconds to move the gear shift. You can wait that long before changing the radio station.
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by paulryanrogers on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:41PM
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Downvoted because this doesn't address the underlying point: differently abled people are just as important. And if their needs can be met with so little extra effort then why push back so hard?
Consider that at a critical moment the difference between moving a thumb and moving ones whole arm and hand could be the difference between life and death.
EDIT: fixed typos
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by badfrog on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:53PM
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That is an odd reason to downvote considering the comment I replied to didn't mention that at all.
Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons
by paulryanrogers on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:39AM
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Fair enough. I thought it was replying to the comment by ellard.