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> If it were not for apple, you would still be typing on a physical keyboard on your cell phone.

No I wouldn't.

I would, happily.

I dread the times we no longer have a choice to type on a physical keyboard. Not one Android/iOS phone would now convince me to throw away my N900.

I was just trying to say that someone would have made touchscreen as primary input method. Sorry for the ambiguous statement.

But, I could've argued in your direction too - I really miss physical keyboard. Typing on touchscreen is just plain wrong, imho.

i had a sony p910 some years ago, that had an optional keyboard but i never used it, character recognition (as in one character at a time ocr) actually worked, I was quicker on that than i am with swype etc now, it was awesome.

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