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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by tiltowait »

xn7 wrote: post #436
paxys wrote: post #329

I doubt this thing will get anywhere, but this discussion thread is making me nostalgic about the wild times of smartphone design in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Motorola Droid. HTC Touch. Palm Pre. Nokia N900/N95/N97 and their other crazy form factors. All the different Blackberrys. Phones were sliding, folding, twisting. Then at some point everyone decided that a glass rectangle was the only way to go and that was i…

The Palm Pre had the best mobile typing experience I have ever had. I tested a lot of different stuff (Blackberries, various weird looking Nokias), but something about the Palm Pre was just... better. It had the perfect amount of resistance, the keys were well defined and had a nice rubber touch.

webOS in general was amazing. I still prefer it over iOS, especially on tablets.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by laweijfmvo »

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?"

I've considered more than once stocking up on good condition used 13 minis, just in case mine breaks or apple stops replacing the batteries

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by laweijfmvo »

isurujn wrote: post #341

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave lol. iPhones have been getting bigger and you still want more screen space? Why not just get a iPad with an external keyboard at this point if you're such a "content creator"?

because apple won't let me make phone calls on my ipad

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Post by uoaei »

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

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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.

The causes may have been obvious but the timeline estimates were way off.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by ecshafer »

93po wrote: post #497
ecshafer wrote: post #489

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The worst part about iOS autocorrect is that it will change previous words and it drives me wild. So even though I had typed a word correctly, I am 2-3 words ahead and it decides to just change the previous word making the sentence nonsense. Also the constant autocorrection of swearing is really annoying.

You can fix the swearing part if you google it

Having to manually white list every word you want to be able to type isn't a great solution. Androids autocorrect automatically adds words to the dictionary as you type and hit allow.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by Vicinity9635 »

hiepph wrote: post #469
Vicinity9635 wrote: post #266

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True, now it's blocking some VPN IPs, which is annoying.

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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by babypuncher »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #215
babypuncher wrote: post #210

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> They lost focus on what the existing customers really loved. The problem is that iPhone and Android were stealing users from that pool. Lots of BB users loved the physical keyboard, but I feel many of them were fairly easily lured away by the greater functionality offered by touchscreens. BB actually tried to hold on to this niche for quite a while, they didn't launch their touchscreen-centric BlackBerry 10 line un…

There was a time, when we had both... but somehow android phone manufacturers stopped being inventive and stopped making different phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z <- this was an android phone with a keyboard, and far from the only one.

I remember these quite well. Their Achilles' heel was durability, a recurring problem with any smartphone design that has moving parts.

I think that if people kept buying these in significant enough numbers, manufacturers would still be making them.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by stjohnswarts »

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.

https://hckrnews.com/ is my go to, I have it set to top 20/day otherwise I'd be on hacker news way too much/too long. It's a self limiting thing.
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