Ah, touchscreen keyboards. These useless contraptions were most recently seen in action helping sink the first generation of UMPCs, and are now claimed to be a "disaster" in Apple's forthcoming iPhone.
Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg there was never any question about whether the device would have a physical keyboard, implying that Cupertino had cracked this usability problem. John C. Dvorak, however, says he got a call last night, and it went like this:
As D. says, no-one's buying the iPhone to type on it. But it's a fair bet you won't be getting far into the double figures as far as your words-per-minute rate is concerned.
Time to short Apple? [Marketwatch]





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