Poll: how long have you been into D

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On 07/06/2013 02:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700
> Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>> Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
>>> textual accuracy :-(
>>
>> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I
>> absolutely have to.
>>
>
> +1k. I genuinely miss Palm's Graffiti 1...Thanks, Xerox! (And tactile
> inputs in general, which Apple killed off and everyone else now
> idiotically apes.) I like being able to, for example, switch songs and
> adjust volume while driving or walking without having to bury my head
> in a tiny screen to do so, like some twitter-obsessed social-whore
> Millennial.
>
> Anyway, typing on a mobile device was more or less a solved problem
> until that sack of shit Steve Jobs moronically convinced everyone that
> physical buttons and styluses were bad things (Remember, that was the
> same dumbass who was convinced that Ctrl-Click was "simpler" for
> average users than Right-Click, and that "Hold Up For 5 Seconds" was a
> more sensible way to turn a device off than a power button or switch).
> And so *now* PDAs (erm, I mean "smartphones") are horrible to type on.
>

Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone.

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