I'm not. I'm waiting for a tactile feel of older keyboards with the form factor of the new keyboards.
this is one thing Tim does not understand about common people... I know so many executives in my company (director and above, like VP, SVP, EVP) who can do 80% of what they do writing short emails. After all, at their level they pretty much attend meetings and ask questions and review things and provide feedback over vast quantities of projects/issues. An iPad works fine for that. In fact, I often see my VP coming to office with only her iPad. But come on, the people who actually work on the deliverable (individual contributors like me), we spend hours going through Business Object or Eclipse or Excel or Word or Toad or Salesforce.com or Oracle ERP tools, trust me we NEED OUR KEYBOARD.
You cannot pry my Topre, Cherry Blues or Browns from my fingers Tim.
Try and fail.
On physical keyboards, there's a reason why the F and J keys have bumps...
To answer your question, Joesegh, why should I be always looking at the screen? No offence to my next question, I'm guessing you must be pretty young?
When I type: hahahaha on my iPhone, i usually get HABANERO.
I think people are not using autocorrect correctly. It makes typing so easy.
I try my best to TRUST autocorrect and I can type like a BEAST on my iPhone and iPad.
That's a lie.
I would love to see Tim Cook typing a 14 pages paper with the iPad, and at the end if he is still smiling, maybe I will believe it.
iPad cannot simulate the responsiveness that a physical keyboard provides with. In particular the keys of a keyboard are not only aimed at augmenting the response when typing but also slow down the action of pressing something by absorbing the impact; something that an iPad screen cannot do since the screen is rigid.
So no... I don't believe that crap (unless he doesn't type and then only dictates) because after a few minutes using a touch screen you get very tired...
You do realize that most people are equally 'confounded' by a physical keyboard when they first start using it? It takes about the same level of practice to be come proficient with the virtual keyboard as it did to become proficient with a physical one. (Slightly less if you're already familiar with the basic QWERTY layout.)
From the responses I've got from my original message, there's a lot of people who don't understand touch typing... which is why for a lot of people current virtual keyboards aren't going to replace physical.
You can be looking at other content and still typing very accurately because you know where you fingers are on the keyboard and can feel if you've made a mistake. You don't need to be looking at the screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing
On physical keyboards, there's a reason why the F and J keys have bumps...
To answer your question, Joesegh, why should I be always looking at the screen? No offence to my next question, I'm guessing you must be pretty young?
You mistook what I meant (look at screen != look at on-screen keyboard).Well, traditionally, one looks at the form/document that's getting text input into it. *I know most kids these days look at the keyboard to see what they are pressing, but that's just bad typing. *I know they did away with lessons in cursive at many public schools; they should've replaced them with lessons in touch typing.
Sounds vaguely reminiscent of the BlackBerry fanboys who thought Android and iOS were not serious enough or "ready for business". We know how that one turned out.Most business users appreciate and need the tactile feedback of a physical keyboard... virtual keyboards are not ready for business use yet.
You guys complaining about the auto correct do realise you can train/tweak it, yeah?
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101147/6-ways-to-improve-your-iphones-autocorrect/
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That would be over 90% of the population then.
And a potential niche market of 10% or less is essentially "dead", really.
I'm not saying we're there yet - simply that most people don't care for keyboards.
lol... I hope you didn't damage your rectum when you pulled out that "over 90% of the population" bs
I think people are not using autocorrect correctly. It makes typing so easy.
I try my best to TRUST autocorrect and I can type like a BEAST on my iPhone and iPad.
Is that a lot?