Better than the iPhone hanfles text!
The idea of blogging from your iPhone is a nice one except the ability to use the mini touch-screen keyboard is something of an ‘acquired’ skill.
Yeah, yeah, it’s a miracle to be able to do it at all, right? Intellectually yes. In every other way, no.
Why is it so unsatisfactory? It’s because most of us have become proficient with a full-size keyboard. We’ve been at it for nearly 25 years for one thing.
The problem with using a phone for writing anything more than a text or tweet is that for me, it’s simply a mis-application of technology. It’s the wrong tool at the wrong time for the wrong person.
There. Even writing this has left me with a greater sense of frustration than I started with. You’ll never know how many hundred times I had to correct mistakes but I can assure you, I do. The trauma, the techno-brutalisation will live on in me and – I suspect – remain hidden until the inevitable day I snap and throw my iPhone into the Thames.
There are two options it seems. 1) Don’t use a phone for writing 2) Do use one but don’t write anything with more than 140 characters.
There us a third, but I don’t relish it: spend another 20 years building up my speed on the iPhone keyboard.
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