[geeks] iPhone interface

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> It can be frustrating, esp. if you put an abbr. or two in a sentence,  
> it will try to auto-complete, so you have to cancel that, then if you  
> add a period it wants to capitalize the next letter... And two spaces  
> in a row cause the previous word to be followed by a period.
> 
> You have work AGAINST the interface to use it, IMHO.
> 
> And try putting an HTML tag or two in a document - you pick ".?123",  
> then "#+=", then "<", then "ABC", then the HTML tag "b", then ".?123",  
> then #+=", then ">". then you get to close out the tag...
> 
> That paragraph took a while to type on my iPhone!

This is why I avoid phone texting unless I absolutely cannot avoid it.
It has to be among the contenders for worst possible user interface.

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