1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
10:49 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven
[snip]
The point is, if a handful (relatively speaking) of programmers want
keyboards, they can have them. Like floppy disks or serial ports, they
may well prove to me minority devices that will disappear from the
mass market completely.
I do have a fold-up USB keyboard for use with my Android tablet - but I don't recall
the last time I used it. Of course, for long emails, I fire up the PowerBook. :-)
My point being: I agree that programmers are a minority among consumers of information
technology, as are "knowledge workers" and most other categories, compared to
consumers who surf the web, play YouTube videos and natter on FaceBook. So the tools they
need may well be specialized, and that may be the category into which the physical
keyboard will soon find itself -- Ian