Death of Physical Keyboards

[Ry]

I COME NOT TO PRAISE QWERTY, BUT TO BURY IT via The Verge

Even Sprint's QWERTY champion Doug Kaufman doesn't think that's likely to happen. "I think there would be a segment out there that would buy it, but it's getting smaller every day ... [the OEMs] want a thin, sexy device to put on advertising," he explains. "I think the ship has really sailed on QWERTY."

 

[Cobravision]

I can type so much faster on SwiftKey than I can on any hardware phone keyboard. Depending on what I'm typing, I'm faster on SwiftKey than a PC keyboard. I often wish there was a word prediction feature for my desktop. But not just any word prediction -- SwiftKey word prediction.

The biggest market the carriers are losing by abandoning hardware keyboards are women with long, manicured nails. You can't comfortably use a capacitive keyboard with long fingernails.