• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Nah. The worst possible thing they could be is the second worst thing.

    The worst thing to happen to smarohones was when Androids stopped coming with slide-out physical keyboards.

    Fuck Apple for many reasons, but the onscreen keyboard is the most egregious and unforgivable of those reasons.

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        2 hours ago

        It was never ok. It was tolerable, but I resented losing the keyboard before I got to.the second generation of phones that didn’t have one.

        I’d happily pay the absolutely stupid prices they want to charge for the stupid foldy phones to get something with modern flagship specs and the form factor of the G1.

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      6 hours ago

      Just use an usb-c keyboard, you can use a much bigger one than would ever fit in a phone. Those tiny ones where a thumb covers 5 keys at a time weren’t that great, SwiftKey is much faster

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        2 hours ago

        No. It should be integrated into the phone, impossible to leave somewhere and incapable of having connection issues.

        The fact that most smartphone users are illiterate and would rather watch a video and send voice notes than actually write anything worth reading isn’t an excuse to make the phone useless to anyone capable of forming complete sentences.