mdavis
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.... I don't understand.
It's okay. I think you'll be very happy with the Iphone.
.... I don't understand.
I understand perfectly, Mdavis!
I prefer tactile keyboards too. I really don't like having to use a stylus(in this case your finger is the stylus) all the time. It's cool for video usage and surfing, but when you text as much as I do, it can get annoying constantly poking on the screen with a virtual keyboard.
So if I understand this then, it's a matter of preference?I understand perfectly, Mdavis!
I prefer tactile keyboards too.
It's okay. I think you'll be very happy with the Iphone.
Sorry. I didn't see that from 10 posts back.
I just read the part where you say it doesn't have a keyboard. And then even after dismissing symantics , you still say: "If it had a keyboard...it would have a keyboard. Perhaps I should say that more clearly: If it had a keyboard...it would have a keyboard."
What do you mean exactly? I don't understand.
a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
You should have looked up 'key' while you were at dictionary.comtry dictionary.com
there's about 4 entries for the noun keyboard- the definitions for what we are talking about all basically say
a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
there's no keys on a touchscreen- there are visual representations of keys but no actual keys.
So if I understand this then, it's a matter of preference?
Or is it a matter of tactile feedback?
Either way, it has a keyboard.
Very strange discussion but I'll bite.
You should have looked up 'key' while you were at dictionary.com
"one of a set of marked parts, designated areas, or levers pressed in operating a typewriter, computer terminal, calculator, etc"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/key
The thing on the iPhone has to have a noun (otherwise we have to call it 'the thing on the iPhone' ) and 'keyboard' seems like the only sensible option. Preface it with 'virtual' to distinguish from a 'physical keyboard' and you're sorted. It is after all how these things have been described for many years (as, I suspect, every poster in this thread knows perfectly well! )
If you get the chance, are you at least going to try it? The poking that is...
Wondering what folks think...
it has a keyboard.
I'm actually not convinced that it will happen even though one would expect it to.I see your point in how under common usage it will be morphed to just "keyboard". In 10 years maybe all "keyboards" with be the 'virtual' type.
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it has a keyboard....