On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:41:01PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > > Frankly this scares me more than a little. I don't want to have to > deal with dumbed-down interfaces where you have to try and convince > the machine what you want to do. I've likened attempts to browse on an > iPhone to working an elevator wearing boxing gloves. If you whack > repeatedly at it you may eventually get it do what you want, but it's > a real pisser.
Let's face it - you (and I) aren't the target market. A day or two ago I happened to be waiting in line next to a teenager (at Rudy's Barbecue joint in Austin). She had a smartphone with a much smaller screen than my Droid. Despite that, and that she was using it one-handed (with a couple of fingers curled round the phone, leaving the thumb free to operate the virtual keyboard) she was able to type messages at a rate probably faster than I can manage using a full-size keyboard. Admittedly I don't know what her keying error rate was, but from what I've seen of texting that's often not too important, I though at the time that was pretty impressive on a keyboard about the size of a 35mm frame :-) On a tangentially related note, our local California schools have just dropped the requirement that students learn cursive script (a.k.a. joined-up handwriting), replacing it by a keyboarding test. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
