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> a purely touchscreen keyboard that doesn't suck

Many people would consider an iPhone keyboard to be this…

You can pry my model m from my cold dead fingers. Haptics is no substitute for actual physical feedback.

Have you tried pressing the home button on iPhone 7 or 8, or clicking a trackpad on a recent MacBook Pro?

Yes. Still, you can pry my mechanical keyboard from my cold, dead hands.

The home button on the new iphones feels _weird_, almost as if there's this strange, unnatural delay to the click actually occurring. For something that purports to be "just like real life" it does a poor job.

The click on the mbp trackpads is not too bad though.

Huh I actually thinks home button is pretty much not recognizable that its not a hardware one. My wife couldn’t even believe me.

for serious typing, replacing a physical keyboard? no way. You really need good haptic feedback for touch typing.

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