Before touchscreens took over, America's best-selling smartphone was the BlackBerry Curve. To understand why, you have to remember what laptops and mobile life looked like in the late 2000s.
Legends of Tech: The BlackBerry Curve
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iPhone gave Blackberry a violent death.
Some companies don't see trends well. I had a Blackberry/ Nextel and iPhone instantaneously sold me the moment I touched it. My network administrator came in to train me and had one. I asked him to see it and he let me. I was ready to hand Apple my money in just 10 seconds.
Blackberry tried to hold on to the "clicky" keyboard with the storm and as the time Apple didn't want haptic feedback because it was a battery drain. Back then, the PDA makers also wanted to keep their own app stores rather than shift to Android's.
Some corporations just don't get it.
Had Blackberry shifted to Android and improved their hardware, they'd probably still be enjoying market share.
Some companies don't see trends well. I had a Blackberry/ Nextel and iPhone instantaneously sold me the moment I touched it. My network administrator came in to train me and had one. I asked him to see it and he let me. I was ready to hand Apple my money in just 10 seconds.
Blackberry tried to hold on to the "clicky" keyboard with the storm and as the time Apple didn't want haptic feedback because it was a battery drain. Back then, the PDA makers also wanted to keep their own app stores rather than shift to Android's.
Some corporations just don't get it.
Had Blackberry shifted to Android and improved their hardware, they'd probably still be enjoying market share.
I've been using my iPhone with Haptic Feedback off and didn't even notice it.
While reading this, I went back to my Phone to turn it back on.
While reading this, I went back to my Phone to turn it back on.
m4a4
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Needing to shift to Android wasn't the problem. The issue is that they were too slow with already old hardware/software; they rested on their laurels too long (iPhone isn't Android and has done well).
If BB could've kept up, maybe they wouldn't have needed to switch to Android. Which is something they did too late and with too expensive of hardware.
That said, I still prefer the physical keyboard (and resting my fingers on it). I will always prefer tactile feedback, if it's on a phone or car lol
Off topic.
"The iPad pushed full screen tablets into the mainstream, but without a physical keyboard it never replaced the laptop."
I remember in the early 2010s all the early adopters and analysts predicted that tablets will kill off pc and laptops. Boy were they off.
"The iPad pushed full screen tablets into the mainstream, but without a physical keyboard it never replaced the laptop."
I remember in the early 2010s all the early adopters and analysts predicted that tablets will kill off pc and laptops. Boy were they off.
BuckarooBonzaii
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I liked the physical keyboard it helped to know where your fingers were at, and sliding from key to key was easier not having to lift your finger off the key.
Whole point of touch screen devices is that most people want to consume media, not produce anything. For casual BS, like watching videos or reading comics/newspapers etc, tablets are very good. For actually doing anything more complex than recording pictures or video, laptop or desktop is miles better.
Same for phones, howe many touchscreen phone users actually do anything more complex than post photos or videos onto some social media platform? I expect nobody. With physical keyboard phone, you can actually do something more serious. But I guess today most people are not interested on nothing more than media consumption.
Simple as that. If touch screen really is "better" than physical keyboard, why desktops still have physical keyboards? Even Apple has laptops and desktops with physical keyboard only, not touchscreen ones. That's why, touch screen trash is only good for casual BS.
Been using phone with physical numpad or physical QWERTY since 1993. Never had touch screen "only" phone. Now waiting for Unihertz Titan 2.
Same for phones, howe many touchscreen phone users actually do anything more complex than post photos or videos onto some social media platform? I expect nobody. With physical keyboard phone, you can actually do something more serious. But I guess today most people are not interested on nothing more than media consumption.
Simple as that. If touch screen really is "better" than physical keyboard, why desktops still have physical keyboards? Even Apple has laptops and desktops with physical keyboard only, not touchscreen ones. That's why, touch screen trash is only good for casual BS.
Been using phone with physical numpad or physical QWERTY since 1993. Never had touch screen "only" phone. Now waiting for Unihertz Titan 2.
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