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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by crtasm »

babypuncher wrote: post #558
crtasm wrote: post #226

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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.

And it wasn't enough to stop them from hemorrhaging customers. People wanted bigger screens with more rich UX. Dedicating so much real estate to a physical keyboard still harmed a ton of apps considerably compared to the 3.5" screens on iPhones of the time.

and people wanted the full keyboard, we were just in the minority.

Those phones were also the best MP3 players I ever owned - I had an iPod touch at the same time and the UX of copying over/selecting/playing music on that simply didn't compare.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by mbirth »

jbm wrote: post #257
FullyFunctional wrote: post #167

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I've been on a physical iPhone keyboard quest since I got my first (4S). I have a pile of BT keyboards and one keyboard case. Still looking for something I would actually use. Indeed, my primary use case is for SSH (via Terminus).

I still have my iPhone 4S keyboard that I used stubbornly for months (along with the 4s itself). Every now and then I charge it and connect it to my PC via bluetooth, but even in landscape mode it was just too small for my sausage fingers. I don't understand how a portrait mode keyboard will be any better, but I hope to be wrong.

I’d have very much preferred something like this, too:

https://www.frontgate.com/bluetooth-slide-out-keyboard-for-i...

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by mvkel »

inhumantsar wrote: post #550
mvkel wrote: post #507

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

look at the impact Omegle had and tell me it wasn't worth pursuing even if all those criticisms ended up being correct.

what was its impact?
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