I keep reading reviews of the iPad Air (and commentary on the iPad mini) where people are saying that they like the narrower bezels on the iPad Air because it makes typing with your thumbs in portrait mode, like you do on an iPhone, possible—where they could only have done so on the iPad mini, before. Conversely, that if youre used to typing with all ten fingers on the iPad in landscape mode, the iPad mini is probably too small for you. Every time, my thought is, Wait, people type with their thumbs on iPhones? Or iPads? Thumbs? Thats... How? Ill occasionally attempt a short word with my thumb if using two hands is inconvenient, but for me the iPhone is a two-handed device for anything other than scrolling; one hand to hold it and the index finger of the other hand to interact. Likewise, I wouldnt begin to attempt to touch-type on a virtual keyboard, and I find the landscape keyboard on the iPad (3) to be annoyingly too large to use—when I need to type on the iPad & dont have my BT keyboard handy, Id rather switch to portrait than type more than a word or two in landscape... and will switch to my iPhone for more than a sentence or two, and to my BT keyboard for more than a couple hundred words. But thumbs? My thumb covers up fully half the iPhones keyboard! My error rate with thumb-typing is probably 15-20%; if people are all thumb-typing, its no wonder they have such egregious autocorrect errors.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:49:52 +0000
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