Was he a Lemming? He sounds like a Lemming. 🤭
I still hate touch screen-only phones, but I hate google-filled phones even more. Good degoogled phones with a full keyboard are rare, and expensive (at least the last time I looked). So I choose the latter for now anyway.
He’s not wrong
I am Jeff. I still hate touchscreens with a passion. I still wish for Steve Jobs’ ghost to be stuck in limbo because he can’t select the appropriate “go to <wherever>” button because there’s only a 1" touchscreen to select and it always registers the wrong input.
Make smartphones with physical keyboards >20% of the market again
I used to think that as well. Trying my friend’s iphone 3gs proved me wrong. I will say that my current android has a worse typing experience than any iphone I’ve used. All my other phones had physical keyboards.
still hate touchscreens and want physical buttons
To be fair to Jeff, early touch screens fucking sucked ass. It wasn’t until capacitive touch screens came on the scene that they became usable, and then multi-touch was a huge step forward too.
Had no trouble with my Palm and Treo - they worked fine (with a stylus of course, but you could also use your finger for touches and swipes).
Capacitive was a huge improvement though, I wouldn’t want to go back. Though I do want my Treo keyboard, that thing was amazing.
I wanted a palm pilot soooo badly back in the day, but I was basically just a kid, and my parents couldn’t understand what I would want with a PDA as they were called back then!
BlackBerry Storm was awful.
Raised on computers, still don’t like touchscreen interfaces. Still have a phone but I don’t use it much for visiting the Internets
One of my teachers said something like that in class once. Something about how it’s much easier to sneak a text during class since you can feel the buttons.
Yeah, that was a sad day. I remember sneaking texts under the desk or while driving (I know, not a good idea) without looking away.
Nah Jeff was right touch screens were a terrible idea, bring back physical buttons.
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Can somebody please decode this?
I loved this because I was able to text without looking. When T9 was an option I would always turn off. Those indeed were the days
I typed with T9 without looking. Learned what order the “common button combination” words would be suggested. Still haven’t recovered my WPM from that era.
Yeah, I really miss spelling things out like this. Those were the days.
Missing the pauses needed to start the next letter sure stumped my translation progress.
I stuck it into chad:
Looks like classic phone keypad (T9-style) text 😊
Decoded message:
“yeah i really miss spelling things of like this. those were the days.”
(There are a couple small typos in the sequence—“ov lile” → “of like”)
Chad did a bad job. Fuck AI.
My phone had a keyboard because I was just so darn cool.
Why tf you link to something that automatically tries to download?
It doesn’t wtf you have a browser that downloads pdfs instead of opening them?
Mobile browser, yeah. I have to approve it, but still.
Released two years later, expensive as hell, still had a touchscreen. The blackberry was always an option.
Touch screen were a terrible idea as a keyboard replacement.
My Treo had a touch screen and a killer keyboard. Stylus was only required for certain things - I’d do a grocery list in the store without the stylus because you just needed to hit one button on the screen.
Best laptop I ever had was an HP with touch screen and Ubuntu. Anything I couldn’t easily do with basic keyboard controls I’d just tap the screen. Had my start bar up the right side so I could poke with my dominant hand to me very between progams. It was accurate enough I could tap to set my typing course when I was editing documents and rarely have to arrow key around.
I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until I built my current desktop. If I knew how to DIY the two 32in TVs I use for monitors into touch I would in a heartbeat.
Jeff was right and instead of the problem getting fixed, they set a release cycle of one year to distract us from it.
I miss being able to use the proximity sensor on my N900 as a button.
Solid points.
Jan. Iphone was launched June. Wondering if he thinking about dumb phones or BlackBerry with touch screen.
The Windows mobile phones were completely unusable without a stylus. HTC made a third party launcher to alleviate it (maybe only after the launch of the iPhone? I don’t remember), but everything was clearly designed for mouse input
Some touch only dumb phones like the LG Cookie were much better because they put some thought in the UI instead of just putting some lipstick on windows ce
Someone with a grudge playing the long game here. Respect.
My modded Cingular 8525 wasn’t too bad 🤷♂️
