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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by growse on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:17AM (#40186958)
Multi-touch was such an enabler, because it meant you could do an on-screen keyboard properly, which meant you could replace the physical keyboard with more screen.

I remember everyone scoffing at the "lol you can't type on it" dramatically missing this point.

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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by SAI_Peregrinus on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:28PM (#40189724)
Also the keyboard wasn't.stuck with QWERTY! You could swap keyboards. You could have big numbers when typing phone numbers, and letters when texting. You could type Californian street names correctly! Write math! Etc.
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