[Air-L] ipad, laptop, desktop
Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga
garaizar at deusto.es
Sun Jan 15 09:02:59 PST 2012
Hello everyone,
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:31:58 -0600 Jim Parker <drjparker at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > People didn't like the feel of an electric typewriter compared to a
> > manual typewriter, people didn't like the feel of a computer
> > keyboard compared to an electric typewriter, fill in the blanks.
I'll fill in the blanks (O:-)): People didn't like the feel of a mobile
keyboard compared to a computer keyboard, so they tried to improve it
by different two approaches: Blackberry's full qwerty keyboard and
iOS/Android/WP7/whatever's virtual keyboard. As none of them were
better than the previous keyboard in terms of performance or
extra-features, people tended to write one-line emails with them and
wait to go home to continue their flame-wars ;-D
IMHO a touch screen is great replacing a mouse and maybe a graphics
tablet (i.e., 2D devices), but it needs to be improved (maybe with some
kind of haptic feedback) to be good enough to compete with a computer
keyboard.
Best regards,
--
Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga
Universidad de Deusto
Avda. de las Universidades 24
48007 Bilbao - Spain
Phone: +34-94-4139000 Ext 2512
Fax: +34-94-4139101
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