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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by city41 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:33AM (#25528315)
Although I totally agree, it also ushered in the virtual keyboard. 13 years of using them and I still absolutely hate them.
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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by IshKebab on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:45PM (#25531250)
You obviously never used one before the iPhone! Part of the reason the iPhone was such a revolution was that it had the first decent virtual keyboard.
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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by city41 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:59PM (#25531354)
What pre-iPhone devices had virtual keyboards? I don't know of any and Googling for them is not turning up much. I could imagine old Windows Phone OSes had some kind of onscreen keyboard which I would guess was pretty bad.

Apple themselves positioned the iPhone against devices with physical keyboards: https://i.imgur.com/hXtRmbG.png

I would argue "decent virtual keyboard" is an oxymoron :)

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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by IshKebab on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:48AM (#25542413)
iPAQ for example.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-typical-on-screen-keyb...

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