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Re:The Android Opportunity by jvdh on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:20PM (#768569)
He has taken the "no fixed keyboard" argument seriously. He wrote about it a number of times. He came to the conclusion that (when implemented well) there is not much of a difference, except user preference.

http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/mobile_phone_keyboards

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Re:The Android Opportunity by lacker on Monday August 17, 2009 @03:04PM (#768807)
It just depends on your definition of "taking it seriously". For example in that article Gruber says

Most people can thumb-type just as well, if not better, on an iPhone as they could on a BlackBerry.

I prefer the iPhone to a Blackberry overall, but the argument that there is no advantage to typing on a Blackberry is just not true. Here's a better analysis:

http://msgnet.org/2008/08/blackberry-vs-iphone-simplified/

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Re:The Android Opportunity by unalone on Monday August 17, 2009 @03:14PM (#768835)
That's not an "analysis". That's an opinion just like Gruber's - who, incidentally, has much more in-depth articles regarding thumb-typing than this one, which treats it as an incidental issue.
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