[IxDA Discuss] MacBook Air

[Nasir Barday]

To paraphrase an old school hip-hop track: "It's all about the haptic
feedback, baby"

People are able to deal with the lack of tactile feedback on the
iPhone keyboard because they compare the soft keyboard, clever
workarounds and all, simply to other smartphone keyboards: they
usually have their eyes on their phone while typing anyway.

I'd hypothesize that for intensive typing on a QWERTY keyboard, your
fingers need to know where they are, and that they've successfully
typed each letter. So it is a challenge to replace the hardware QWERTY
keyboard for this type of application.

Then again, I was all about haptic feedback for the iPhone keyboard
when it came out, too ...

- N