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Re:Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones by shakna on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:25AM (#46228618)
Apple's keyboard receives more information, to put it simply. It doesn't get told that a touch was at a particular point, but the entire fuzzy area. Allowing you to use circular occlusion and other things to choose between side-by-side buttons and override the predictive behaviour when it is the wrong choice.

A third-party maker gets a single point - usually several in short succession, but still it requires more math to work out where the edges of the finger are pressing, to help determine which direction you're moving. So most just... Don't.

Re:Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones by jrmg on Thursday December 11, 2025 @09:51AM (#46232065)
Are you aware of the `majorRadius` and `majorRadiusTolerance` UITouch properties?
Re:Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones by shakna on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#46236353)
Apple's software gets the actual mapping matrix that those use.