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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by porsager »

cpeterso wrote: post #284
cpeterso wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Type Nine looks awesome! I just bought it. I've become increasingly frustrated with the default iPhone keyboard and looking for something more reliable and deterministic. Your onboarding tutorial was excellent. Much more thorough and polished than I expected. One issue: I advanced through all the tutorial screens until the end of the "manual" tutorial, but it wasn't obvious that was the end because there was no "next…

Also, the suggestions seem to be confused by contractions when swiping, defaulting to "didnt" or "doesnt" even when the list of suggestions includes "didn't" or "doesn't". The lists of suggestions also include a lot of non-English or nonsense words (like “diwn” and “dizoo”), even though I'm using an English dictionary. The punctuation screen doesn’t include some punctuation available on the Apple keyboard like (paren…

Oh - Just checked, you're right these words are reversed in the default dictionary. They'll be right there in front the first time you use them thought, and I'll look into seeing if I can find a good rule for improving the preference by default.

The dictionaries are compiled from large known corpuses, wikipedia and movie subtitles, to ensure most words are available, but it does also mean that some weird words sneak in. That shouldn't matter much since it's very quick to adjust to your usage, and due to the usage sorting the weird words should never come first.

About the punctuation you just need to scroll the symbols window to get to the rest ;)

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by hx8 »

I prototyped something very similar during covid using a 3d printer, a blackberry keyboard, and a teensy. I don't think this is going to generate many long term users, even though I was enthusiastic enough to hack on it for a bit.

* So much of my typing includes selecting emoji, using odd symbols, and the need for inputs not provided on this. In addition, having to switch between the touch screen and keyboard as inputs was very annoying.

* It significantly decreases the experience of using the phone in touch situations.

* I was using it with my iPhone mini and the phone and case had terrible weight balance. My hands fatigued quickly. I can't imagine how bad it would be for a iPhone Max.

* I lost the use of my port.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by philsnow »

tomasreimers wrote: post #56

Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c39...

I still have an HTC Dream in a drawer somewhere, thinking that someday I'll repurpose it as a bluetooth keyboard for something or other.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by wannacboatmovie »

dalemhurley wrote: post #393
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #367

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This will fail not because it's not a good idea, but because the implementation is flawed. Ryan Seacrest (yes the Ryan Seacrest) bankrolled a startup 10 years ago with an almost identical product. (They were sued out of existence by an already dying BlackBerry.) I remember listening to an interview where he explained they restricted the product to smaller iPhone models because user testing showed the product didn't w…

Thank you. As soon as I read their website claiming to be “the first creator keyboard for iPhone”, I was thinking “nope, there was one blackberry sued”. Hopefully they will update their website and remove the false claim.

Their website and marketing materials have a bit of a "Simpsons already did it" charm to them. Not to mention you will need specially designed pants to hold this roofing shingle-sized monstrosity. Maybe they can bring wearing overalls to the office into style.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by gambiting »

dalemhurley wrote: post #393
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #367

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This will fail not because it's not a good idea, but because the implementation is flawed. Ryan Seacrest (yes the Ryan Seacrest) bankrolled a startup 10 years ago with an almost identical product. (They were sued out of existence by an already dying BlackBerry.) I remember listening to an interview where he explained they restricted the product to smaller iPhone models because user testing showed the product didn't w…

Thank you. As soon as I read their website claiming to be “the first creator keyboard for iPhone”, I was thinking “nope, there was one blackberry sued”. Hopefully they will update their website and remove the false claim.

There is no financial or any other penalty for keeping the lie there, so it won't disappear.

For years Omega used to write "the first and only watch on the Moon" on their Speedmaster watches, even though people kept pointing out over and over and over again that it's just simply not true - other watches were also used on the moon, including a Bulova Accutron when the nasa-issued speedmaster popped its crystal while on the lunar surface. So it was an obvious and easily provable lie, but for years it adorned a multi-thousand dollar watch. Omega did eventually change it with the new revision of the watch, but there is no reason to believe that it was because people were complaining about it.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by droopyEyelids »

obilgic wrote: post #353
dumpHero2 wrote: post #155

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If it gains any traction, you'd be able to get a fairly decent Temu version in about 6 months from now for $30.

Whats the verdict on temu vs aliExpress. I still find things %30 cheaper on AE while most of my orders are delivered within 6 days.

I fond them to have the same prices and mostly the same items but temu often doesnt have the really nice version of a thing thats basically from a “brand” in china

Here is today’s random example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr2D3Y4

Couldn’t find anything like that on temu

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by happymellon »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #394
blep-arsh wrote: post #383

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A 16" 4K USB-C OLED display (with a touch sensor even). It works exactly as advertised and looks really nice but is rather useless for me, to be honest.

This sounds extremely useful to me! I’m building out a home assistant dashboard and would like a nice crisp display with touch. Why did you get it if it’s useless for you? Not being critical at all, more so curious how it turned out to be a bad fit.

I would guess it's something like this

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005670832686.html

[Edit] Ah no, it says 4k in the title but the description is 1080p.

Try this

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006407747752.html

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