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[Mercen_505]

This could grow to be one huge ignore list.

It could, but then that would be idiotic. It's just a word. It only has as much meaning as you ascribe to it.

[wellington1869]

slashdot: Apple may face antitrust inquiry.

this was inevitable, I think; and probably more to come in the years ahead.

[wellington1869]

Will argue boot what hardwriting algorithm is bitter then the Uther's.

or whose handwriting is better for handwriting recognition. Or whose voice is better suited for voice recognition. Maybe we'll end up with singing contests.

"I can enunciate at 80 wpm!"

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i'm inclined to say yes!  Going to the command line is usu seen as having been defeated in some way (among regular users anyway, as opposed to producers/programmers).

Ok. I think you're right in that regard. I forgot that I'm a coder. To the general computing public, the command line doesn't exist.

Regular boards may not vanish entirely, but they might become a 'deprecated' product (like the command line). Used daily not by the general public but by niche producers/programmers, like the command line is)

Regular users might be using a combination of voice recognition, gesture, haptic and multitouch screens, instead.  (btw that endangers the mouse as much as the keyboard)

I think there's only one thing that can possibly render physical keyboards obsolete and that's killer nearly flawless voice recognition, which is a stretch, but probably not beyond question.

Even with killer voice recognition, there are things that will be very impractical to do by voice... like coding. When my hands hurt, I do everything via speech recognition except for coding... can't do that... waaaay to slow. Composing via speech recognition gives my hands enough rest to do what I make money doing.

We're certainly going to see a lot of things going away from keyboards, but a lot of things probably were never right for keyboards in the first place. Keyboards were all we had. Every form of input has its strengths and weaknesses and I think the more touch screens are crowned as the messiah, the more obvious it will be where the weaknesses lie.

isnt there definitely a really strong push in that direction right now? Not just by apple, but by the industry as a whole?

[wellington1869]

I think there's only one thing that can possibly render physical keyboards obsolete and that's killer nearly flawless voice recognition, which is a stretch, but probably not beyond question.

Even with killer voice recognition, there are things that will be very impractical to do by voice... like coding. When my hands hurt, I do everything via speech recognition except for coding... can't do that... waaaay to slow. Composing via speech recognition gives my hands enough rest to do what I make money doing.
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"Hello, computer"

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