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The ipad software keyboard is hard to use for any length of time because you have to switch between several virtual layouts to hit every key.

It slows you down if you're writing code instead of English words.

Having punctuation characters hidden away probably reduces the overall complexity of people's passwords as well. I strongly suspect that people switch to alphanumeric-only passwords for anything they would enter into an ipad/iphone keyboard.

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Typical post of an outlier who thinks they are the typical user targeted by Apple. If anyone thinks that Apple designed the keyboard and neglected to optimize it for people writing code is a dope.

I'll put the people that would never buy anything without an SD or MicroSD card slot. Again, useful but to a very small and select group of users.

I wish people here (supposedly smart and intelligent folks) would have the common sense to put themselves into the shoes of a TYPICAL user and make their comments relevant to that viewport.

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