Comments on: iPad: the world has changed http://rosscarter.com/2010/308.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michel Fortin http://rosscarter.com/2010/308.html/comment-page-1#comment-3229 Michel Fortin Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:14:17 +0000 http://rosscarter.com/?p=308#comment-3229 It's still lacking tactile feedback. I can type very fast even with my eyes closed on my computer, but there's no way this can work without feeling the keys under my fingers. So I'd say that this keyboard is suited only for casual typing. That said, many people need to look at the keys even on a physical keyboard. To those people, it'll make much less of a difference. Context-dependent keyboard arrangements are great too. This isn't something you can do well with a physical keyboard. So, I'd probably put Excellent instead of Outstanding for the iPad's keyboard. It's better on the flexibility that a regular physical one because it can rearrange itself, but worse for heavy typing where you can benefit a lot from tactile feedback. It’s still lacking tactile feedback. I can type very fast even with my eyes closed on my computer, but there’s no way this can work without feeling the keys under my fingers. So I’d say that this keyboard is suited only for casual typing.

That said, many people need to look at the keys even on a physical keyboard. To those people, it’ll make much less of a difference. Context-dependent keyboard arrangements are great too. This isn’t something you can do well with a physical keyboard.

So, I’d probably put Excellent instead of Outstanding for the iPad’s keyboard. It’s better on the flexibility that a regular physical one because it can rearrange itself, but worse for heavy typing where you can benefit a lot from tactile feedback.

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