You already convinced them to give it up when they got your touchscreen device. If you can come up with something with a shallow learning curve, I could see them adopt it for the mobile space. I agree, though, that Morse code is not the future of touchscreen input.
I think what will happen is that if you want to get any serious work done on a phone, you'll just fork out for your Bluetooth keyboard and be done with it, unless they can come up with a neat alternative input method.
There are some alternative touchscreen input methods that might enable you to type without looking at the keys. There's iDitDah, which can get you around 50 wpm. IIRC it uses Morse code, so if you know that, you should be able to not look.
I don't know about 100 WPM, but there's an app for jailbroken iPhones that uses morse code to get 50 WPM. It's called iDitDah. I could see something like that enable you to get some pretty awesome speeds with some refinement. You also don't have to look at the screen to get those speeds.
Here in the US, virtually every consumer has to deal with a power company monopoly. I'm not sure that running into the arms of another monopoly is really going to save us from limited competition.
It doesn't matter, because the survey was through the browser, not at the store while you purchase the device / contract. If the parents get their kid an iPhone, it will show up in the survey as the kid's (since he's the one actually using it).
And the links above seem to suggest that that stereotype (at least as far as age goes) is not so accurate. iPod touch? Yeah, the vast majority of people who own those are 13-17. iPhone? Nope; the same proportion is above 25.
75% of iPhone users are above 25 years old, according to an April 2009 survey. RIM itself, in a 2010 leaked powerpoint estimated their own users at 36.7 years old, with the other smartphone users being 35.8. Still other survery show that the iPhone has just about 50% of its users 35 and above.
Blackberry users, though they might be a little older, probably aren't so much older that they've been using a computer longer than the average iPhone user has been alive.
I'm 21 and don't use my phone as an alarm; it's too quiet. On the other hand, I don't use any other alarm clock either. I do have a clock by my bed if I want it though.
Something similar happened to me. I store all my music on my (new) desktop, but have my phone synced to my laptop. For whatever reason, my laptop didn't connect to my shared drive, and as a consequence, all of the music on my iPhone was wiped after the upgrade. On the plus side, iOS 4.x is a pretty good upgrade.
I live in a small town, and the "core" area has very little in the way of shops that you need to live; there's no grocery store in the old, walkable, part of town. Outside of about a 1-2 mile strip, there's no sidewalks. Most people never go into the old part of town except for official business; the court house, police station, tax people, etc. are all in one spot.
We may not have to live that way, but we Americans are subsidizing the opposite, sprawl-generating suburban lifestyle. While I might want to live with a nice yard and big house, I don't think that anyone should subsidize my choice.
He's into conspiracy theories, including very bizarre ones. Example: He's a Mormon, and now he has some sort of idea that "they" don't want you to know about the "real archaeological evidence" for Jews crossing the Atlantic and fathering the Native Americans.
The sad thing is the weak hardware is stopping us from getting all the FPSes, because most players want shiny graphics and the Wii can't deliver, even though the Wii would be great for this.
Correction: No matter who controls the White House, the special interests rule. The Democrats may sometimes speak out against (some) of the special interests, but they are just as good at paying tribute to the real leaders. It's like when a Republican talks about small government; expect no cuts (except perhaps taxes) and spending to increase sharply.
Skype For SIP is the perfect way to integrate Skype with your existing PBX, allowing the communications from your PBX to be complemented by Skype functionality – head over to the Business blog to find out more about the Beta programme.
Somehow I don't think PBX interoperability is aimed at the consumer market. (though SIP support might help some consumers)
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You already convinced them to give it up when they got your touchscreen device. If you can come up with something with a shallow learning curve, I could see them adopt it for the mobile space. I agree, though, that Morse code is not the future of touchscreen input.
I think what will happen is that if you want to get any serious work done on a phone, you'll just fork out for your Bluetooth keyboard and be done with it, unless they can come up with a neat alternative input method.
There are some alternative touchscreen input methods that might enable you to type without looking at the keys. There's iDitDah, which can get you around 50 wpm. IIRC it uses Morse code, so if you know that, you should be able to not look.
I don't know about 100 WPM, but there's an app for jailbroken iPhones that uses morse code to get 50 WPM. It's called iDitDah. I could see something like that enable you to get some pretty awesome speeds with some refinement. You also don't have to look at the screen to get those speeds.
And Ma Bell was a horrific enterprise. They would have found a way to block Netflix/iTunes/etc. even if they didn't compete with them.
Here in the US, virtually every consumer has to deal with a power company monopoly. I'm not sure that running into the arms of another monopoly is really going to save us from limited competition.
It doesn't matter, because the survey was through the browser, not at the store while you purchase the device / contract. If the parents get their kid an iPhone, it will show up in the survey as the kid's (since he's the one actually using it).
And the links above seem to suggest that that stereotype (at least as far as age goes) is not so accurate. iPod touch? Yeah, the vast majority of people who own those are 13-17. iPhone? Nope; the same proportion is above 25.
75% of iPhone users are above 25 years old, according to an April 2009 survey. RIM itself, in a 2010 leaked powerpoint estimated their own users at 36.7 years old, with the other smartphone users being 35.8. Still other survery show that the iPhone has just about 50% of its users 35 and above.
Blackberry users, though they might be a little older, probably aren't so much older that they've been using a computer longer than the average iPhone user has been alive.
It's an iPhone. The thing is just too puny for me. Maybe if I put on headphones / earbuds it would wake me, but that would be a smidgen uncomfortable.
I'm 21 and don't use my phone as an alarm; it's too quiet. On the other hand, I don't use any other alarm clock either. I do have a clock by my bed if I want it though.
Something similar happened to me. I store all my music on my (new) desktop, but have my phone synced to my laptop. For whatever reason, my laptop didn't connect to my shared drive, and as a consequence, all of the music on my iPhone was wiped after the upgrade. On the plus side, iOS 4.x is a pretty good upgrade.
My clock sets itself automatically (save for the time zone; it defaults to West coast time, and I'm on the East coast) once powered on.
That's not really a good reason to continuously adjust our clocks.
Care to share those metrics?
I live in a small town, and the "core" area has very little in the way of shops that you need to live; there's no grocery store in the old, walkable, part of town. Outside of about a 1-2 mile strip, there's no sidewalks. Most people never go into the old part of town except for official business; the court house, police station, tax people, etc. are all in one spot.
$2 in Mumbai might just go a bit further than $2 in, say, New York City.
80 MPG? Are you driving to work at 5 mph every day? ;) I wasn't aware that any hybrid got that amount of gas mileage at highway speeds.
We may not have to live that way, but we Americans are subsidizing the opposite, sprawl-generating suburban lifestyle. While I might want to live with a nice yard and big house, I don't think that anyone should subsidize my choice.
NTSC is more than the US. It's almost all of North America, most of South America. Japan, South Korea. and the Philippines.
He's into conspiracy theories, including very bizarre ones. Example: He's a Mormon, and now he has some sort of idea that "they" don't want you to know about the "real archaeological evidence" for Jews crossing the Atlantic and fathering the Native Americans.
The sad thing is the weak hardware is stopping us from getting all the FPSes, because most players want shiny graphics and the Wii can't deliver, even though the Wii would be great for this.
Correction: No matter who controls the White House, the special interests rule. The Democrats may sometimes speak out against (some) of the special interests, but they are just as good at paying tribute to the real leaders. It's like when a Republican talks about small government; expect no cuts (except perhaps taxes) and spending to increase sharply.
They are starting to roll out enterprise service. Skype for SIP now available in Beta.
Skype For SIP is the perfect way to integrate Skype with your existing PBX, allowing the communications from your PBX to be complemented by Skype functionality – head over to the Business blog to find out more about the Beta programme.
Somehow I don't think PBX interoperability is aimed at the consumer market. (though SIP support might help some consumers)
IN the short chick? What classes are you taking and where!?