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Next Keyboard for iOS

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12 pointsgoogletron9 comments

Why is it so hard for people to explain what their product is on the product's web page? Two sentences explaining why this keyboard is interesting and why I should put my e-mail into your box would be welcome.

Yeah, I see that there's a video. No, I'm not going to watch it.

It's fairly obvious that this feature was stolen from the BlackBerry Passport's touch-sensitive physical keyboard.

It irks me when an original and "groundbreaking" (supposedly) idea is presented by an unpopular company and ignored, but when a snazzy new startup or Apple itself decides to come along and rewrite it for the most popular platform it's lauded like sliced bread.

Hey I'm one of the guys behind Next Keyboard.

Not sure what you're referring to. We started working on Next in the summer before Blackberry Passport was released.

Pretty sure he's talking about the cursor control.

On the note of referring: It would be nice if people could actually link to specific features and/or videos on your site so they could be talked about with references. Also, in different browsers (Opera 12 and Chrome on windows) your videos play and load slowly and don't seem to play all the way to the end.

Edit: Also on my (fairly big) monitor the video is zoomed in so much the top and bottom are cut off, and the text entry field isn't displayed at all. Seriously, you need some guy to test your website on various stuff and yell at you if it's broken, if you make a super-fancy one that eschews all the hard lessons learned in the 90s.

Lastly, props for including a warning that this is iphone exclusive. This may sound sarcastic, but i'm honestly glad when ios developers let everyone else know that they don't need to waste time investigating and/or looking forward to a product.

The saddest part about this is that the biggest players do it most shamelessly without any sort of nod towards the inspiration, and often instead even claim to be the only ones, or the first to introduce such a feature. In recent memory i've seen Google, Firefox and Apple pull such things.

irks you? This is nerd logic. It is just marketing and before seeing it here, I haven't seen it ever. so likely a failing on blackberry's marketing team.

ugh.

Yes, "nerd logic" includes applying normal standards of human decency to marketing instead of giving it a free pass to act however it wants as some people seem to think is appropriate. That should not really surprise you.

Don't really get it, is it just making the space bar "shifty"? Is it just a shortcut to move the cursor directly on the space bar?

Well this is a pointless submission.

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