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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by devit on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:41AM (#19270925)
Keyboards are only faster if you have spent the time learning the shortcuts for a specific application.

With a mouse, you can use any application right away with no learning curve, and also interact with the content itself better than with a keyboard.

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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by Skunkleton on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:24PM (#19273639)
That is exactly my point. Touch screens don't have the faster thing to fall back on, so apps end up optimizing the touch interface for speed at the expense of discoverability.
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