Comments on: Forget the iSlider Keyboard, Howsabout the iPhone iClamshell?!

By: ggping

ggping — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:12:28 +0000

I used to have a more or less full size folding keyboard for my PDA – it folded up to the same size and the pda. this is what I would like to see. I do not want to make the iPhone bigger – but would like to sit down on occasion and type in more substantial notes than i can with either the apple keyboard or a hard thumb keyboard.

By: Noble

Noble — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:41:22 +0000

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By: Jean-Luc

Jean-Luc — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:12:39 +0000

I’d love a physicial keyboard and I am convinced that Apple could “elegant, artistic” as Tunnelrunner said. And yes I have tried the onscreen keyboard for a while and didn’t like it. Sure I am not a fun guy at all as far as photos, videos and music is concerned so not to spoil this nice device what about calling it iSmart?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:27:48 +0000

@Sean Peters:

No, I’m not f’in kidding you. Try just touching your real keyboard’s keys and see how much faster it is. It’s not rocket science.

I never suggested that the iPhone’s keyboard was “as good” as a physical keyboard… because it’s much, much, much “better” than a physical keyboard.

And if I “let those of you who want” a clamshell iPhone, have one… then that means I AM forced to have one, genius… and I DON”T WANT ONE!!

By: Sean Peters

Sean Peters — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:02:04 +0000

Geez, the responses here are so reminiscent of the NO TWO BUTTON MOUSE EVAR! crowd. Don't want a physical keyboard? Don't buy one. I've got an iPhone and really like it, but I could do so much more with it if I could plug in a keyboard when I needed one.

Steve@16: "I don’t understand anyone not being able to “get anywhere near the speed [they] can get on a decent tactile keyboard” on a touchscreen. Pushing something always has to take more time than touching something. "

You have got to be f'in kidding me. Pushing something probably does take more time than touching something... but when the thing you have to touch is the size of a matchhead, is spaced very closely with other matchheads, and oh, by the way, you can't feel them... you're going to have the choice of 1) going very slowly, 2) making lots of mistakes, or 3) both. The idea that the iPhone onscreen keyboard is as good as a physical keyboard is ludicrous.

But again, no one's trying to force you to buy one. Just let those of us who want to, do so. But since Steve rules this platform with an iron fist, we get we he wants, rather than what we want.

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:36:28 +0000

i think what makes the iphone great is that is does not have a keyboard and it is not trying to be a blackberry AND a great media device. It irks me that there are so many that wish the iphone had a physical keyboard. especially one with an ugly clam shell or ghetto slider. I think apple would throw up in its mouth if it tried to take the pretty iphone and make it look like a Sidekick.

@steve: sorry you dont like BES and I wish it didnt exist either and apple's integration with Activesync was a nice compromise. But I think the iphone mail client needs to improve a little before it can be adopted by the corporate types.

By: Thumper

Thumper — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:24:05 +0000

Theres nothing original about the iphone keyboard thats built in ,its only a copy of what pocket pc’s have had for the last 10 years and resco software brought out larger skinable keypads way before the iphone , least the ppc has 2options of input fingers and the pen. Just a shame the ppc is so fiddly but most of the iphone ideas sprung from the ppc only apple seem to have got it right , but for how long till win mo and android over take?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:44:38 +0000

The “Apple is for fun” and “not for business” is extremely old and tiresome. I’ve been hearing it for twenty years and it’s bullsh*t.

I got your BES right here.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:34:34 +0000

No BES/BIS support is to smartphones now what no ActiveX support was the browsers a few years ago.

How'd that end up again?

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:35:47 +0000

@steve

chill dude. no cut and paste, no BES support so there are prob millions of corporate users who may find the email client difficult to use.

stop being so protective..its just a phone.