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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by arxpoetica »

hollerith wrote: post #508
arxpoetica wrote: post #506

There will come a day (with the advent of AI speech recognition) where keyboards will be obsolete. That day is sooner than we think.

I dread that day. It's annoying enough listening to people's phone conversations; in my experience, listening to people using speech to operate a UI is a higher level of annoyance (because the person's speech tends to start and stop abruptly because the cognitive demands of operating a UI are higher than that of having a conversation with a person).

Valid point I hadn't considered. Maybe the day isn't as soon as we think—perhaps both will exist...

...until we have speech muffler envelopes built into our devices.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by WhackyIdeas »

bevan wrote: post #434

For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…

I personally always type hackernews.org to get here.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by Reubachi »

jareklupinski wrote: post #505

i need this for a 12 mini extending the already small phone would basically bring it in line with larger phones in its class, but with a keyboard

I have a 13 mini and would advise that you and I abandon our lines of thinking/hope :p

They'll never make another phone this size, and accessory manufacturers ofc take their cue from Apple. I thought about some bespoke/custom keyboard for mine as I have experience with USB periphials but I kept coming back to "will I have this phone in 4 months?"

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by jareklupinski »

Reubachi wrote: post #513
jareklupinski wrote: post #505

i need this for a 12 mini extending the already small phone would basically bring it in line with larger phones in its class, but with a keyboard

I have a 13 mini and would advise that you and I abandon our lines of thinking/hope :p They'll never make another phone this size, and accessory manufacturers ofc take their cue from Apple. I thought about some bespoke/custom keyboard for mine as I have experience with USB periphials but I kept coming back to "will I have this phone in 4 months?"

Enjoying it for 4 months is 4 months of enjoyment :)

"Mitch, do you want an apple? No, eventually it will be a core!" - Mitch Hedberg

I'll join in and that will make it 8 months!

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by tiborsaas »

ant6n wrote: post #438
bevan wrote: post #434

For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…

> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.

I type the full URL. In the gym, on a treadmill's browser. See, I'm not addicted.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by qingcharles »

ant6n wrote: post #438
bevan wrote: post #434

For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…

> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.

Speak for yourself, I forked Chromium and made it the default entry in the address bar and set it to read-only.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by smithcoin »

mvkel wrote: post #507
epanchin wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Omegle shut down I looked here for when it was launched. All the replies to its first post, ~14 years ago, were negative. For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753

In Omegle's case, was the criticism wrong? It was un-monetizable and ended under thumb of lawsuits.

but it was a great ride while it lasted*

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by nye2k »

I could not find the remote to my TV this morning and attempted to use my iPhone instead. By the time I arrived at the correct UI my 3 yr old had already found a PS4 controller and was able to control the TV and navigate to where he wanted to go... I only needed to notch up the volume.

Assistive devices are necessary for a large audience, as they allow users to leverage their strengths. Just as my 3yr old beat my phone speed with a game controller, users will be able to type faster than me with this keyboard.

It is nice to have a single device that tries to do it all, but interacting with flat UI buttons in a 2D plane of light and glass is limited to a very small set of sensory inputs and therefore cumbersome for anyone to use. There is physically no way around this HCI problem without adding additional hardware. Thanks for working to bridge the gap!

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by bborud »

The number of comments on this thread is data. I'm not sure what this data suggests, but it has to mean something that (at the time of commenting) there are nearly 500 comments. That's a lot more than I would have expected.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by oblio »

WhackyIdeas wrote: post #512
bevan wrote: post #434

For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…

I personally always type hackernews.org to get here.

A purist, I see.
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