OK, so Google want to improve their handwriting recognition. Fine. But from a users point of view this just tells me one thing:
- Using an on-screen keyboard is such a pain for people that Google changed their HOMEPAGE to accommodate this.
Why does this irritate me?
1) None of the latest generation of smartphones are coming out with a hardware keyboard. The best are always keyboardless.
2) Stylus-based input, which is the other extremely fast form of text entry, has all but died out (I know some products still exist - but it was essentially dead when capacitive screens won out).
Hence, we've gone backwards from 10 years ago. It was faster for me to send a text/email from my phone 10 years ago then it is today. That is hugely disappointing.
- Using an on-screen keyboard is such a pain for people that Google changed their HOMEPAGE to accommodate this.
Why does this irritate me?
1) None of the latest generation of smartphones are coming out with a hardware keyboard. The best are always keyboardless.
2) Stylus-based input, which is the other extremely fast form of text entry, has all but died out (I know some products still exist - but it was essentially dead when capacitive screens won out).
Hence, we've gone backwards from 10 years ago. It was faster for me to send a text/email from my phone 10 years ago then it is today. That is hugely disappointing.