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0 pointseviks2y ago0 comments

> type more text on a screen on either iPad or iPhone these days than any other way. If it was not convenient, I wouldn’t be doing it.

Yes you would just like a lot of other people do - because the device is truly portable, so you can suffer more inconvenience to use it everywhere to communicate in immediate mode

> Finally, you know if you type a lot you can connect your favorite mechanical keyboard and it will work just like it does on Mac, with Emacs-like movement combos and all?

No it won't, I've changed those bad defaults with macos-only apps

> You know you can

Yes I do, and still agree with the OP that the software support is bad and none of the things you list are properly engineered despite the fact that direct analogue finger input has great potential

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anileated2y ago· 2 in thread

> you can suffer more inconvenience to use it everywhere to communicate in immediate mode

If it was as awfully inconvenient as some here claim, I would reply to comments or write emails on my laptop. It simply is not.

eviksOP2y ago

And if you meant awful inconvenience you should've said so in the previous comment. It simply is ... inconvenient, much more so than with a regular keyboard, but not as awful as to make it completely impractical, so the other benefits can outweigh it and result in plenty of phone typing

anileated2y ago

> you should've said so in the previous comment

See the comment I originally replied to. “Horrifically broken”, “many steps” and so on.

Also, for me it is often about as fast to type as with a hardware keyboard thanks to swipe typing. Perhaps I think slow enough that it’s not a bottleneck. Pity you all fast thinkers, I suppose.

Editing is sometimes a bit slower, but also depends.

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