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> 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.
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I get so much Temu spam that I finally gave up and decided to check them up. I compared 3 random items that the spam in Instagram was about - exact same items were 3x - 10x cheaper on AliExpress than Temu (~0.50 on Ali, ~5.0 on Temu, ~10 on Amazon). I haven't looked further but my impression was that they just ship stuff from AliExpress with a X price multiplier?
How do you go about finding stuff on AliExpress that isn't (too) shit when it turns up? Or is that just the risk?
It's a bit crass but you can accept a few duds and still come out ahead. In my experience even the duds are good for a year or two.
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Dvorak for thumb typing?
Makes as much sense as QWERTY for thumb typing. In either case you're not touch-typing, so the only advantage is visual familiarity of layout. (As a Dvorak user, I prefer desktop keyboards in which it's possible to pry off and rearrange the keycaps to match.)
There are keyboards with no printed letters on them whatsoever. That's even better :)
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This was true for me until the latest iOS release, but then it got worse for me. The inline predictions were especially problematic, but they added a toggle in the settings for it. I think this puts me in the market for a keyboard like this
Sometimes I feel hacker news audience either have a very unique use case with their software/hardware or they are living in an alternative universe. The latest iOS keyboard is absolutely better than anything I've tried. I am sometimes shocked that it could autocorrect what I initially typed because it was so far off! And I have big fingers!
I'd say the iOS 17 beta keyboard was the second worst mobile keyboard I've experienced since the 9-key dialpad keyboards, but there is another person in this thread for whom that was their favorite keyboard :) There is at least a lot of variety here.
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Yeah, I have two, and there is no way to put some proper OS on them :~((.
I don't know if it's still maintained, but I used to build this one from source: https://legacyxperia.github.io/ If you're curious about the possibilities, it might be worth searching xdaforums for "mango", and browsing threads like this one: https://xdaforums.com/t/is-an-xperia-mini-still-usable-in-20... I haven't bothered, mainly because 3G service is disappearing nowadays.
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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…
https://www.amazon.com/Typo2-Keyboard-for-iPhone-6/dp/B00O49...
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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…
A couple years before that the Blackberry 9900 added a touchscreen to their standard form factor and even without using the touch feature it was more than usable to browse the web on. The small click/touchpad was a delight to use.
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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.
But you're not given a choice at all. Look at sd card slots for example... cheap storage expansion, a standard not that long ago, but at one moment in time, pretty much all the flagship phones lost that feature. It wasn't an option, where you could buy a model without an sd card or one with the slot for $20 more, but the slot was gone, and the only phones with sd card slots were either old and shitty or some chinese…
There are a lot of very vocal niches. I got real excited when Apple put out the iPhone 12 mini, I even bought one. But the rest of the market said no, and now there is no more Mini-sized iPhone. We may be noisy, but our niche is not large enough to sustain the devices we want.
As a side note, there are still good Android phones with expandable storage, they just aren't made by Google or Samsung. Sony still makes them.
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 was literally searching for physical keyboard attachments for the iphone last night. This is almost exactly what I want. I think a slide out keyboard would be nicer, but this looks awesome.