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He mentions that this again is only for short people, aka he would have liked for it to tilt back further (see comments about the camera angle)

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But usually taller people will have longer hands as well. That would increase the distance of the keyboard from the user's body and so the angle should still work.

He addressed that issue here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706767

He is tall, 6'3", but moving the surface away form him enough results in it being too far away to type.

Also I think people complained about this because on airplanes you probably won't have the room to do this :-\

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