| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
09:08 - The trick is: just type away, and trust the intelligence of the keyboard
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.html
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The loupe-like insertion cursor, the expanded tap zones for predicted next letters, and the ".com" key for URLs—all things I hadn't seen before. This looks damn cool; even, rather than a liability, a fun feature in its own right. Certainly a far cry from Graffiti, the last mobile-device text input method that we were assured would become second nature in just a few days.
(Related is that the "disastrous" Newton's handwriting recognition was actually really good, according to people who actually owned them; you just had to give it time to adapt, and few reviewers—or TV show writers or cartoonists—were willing to do so, especially when it was funnier not to. First impressions are key (as it were); Apple's taken that particular lesson to heart, it seems.)
Via Gruber.
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Brian Tiemann
