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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Waiting to hear from the "phone manufacturers are just selling what consumers want" apologists to insist this downgrade is by popular demand.
by93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes:
This isn't really on the phone manufacturers - this is mostly the car designers who are trying to copy the phone designers, and doing it badly.
byGameboyRMH ( 1153867 ) writes:
It's quite similar to the way phones have phased out keyboards though...
bySique ( 173459 ) writes:
I had phones with the dial pad (of course!), but I never had a phone with a complete keyboard. I never understood the appeal of those.
bykarmawarrior ( 311177 ) writes:
Typing on a phone screen sucks.
The other thing was that those where the keyboard came out on the side (NOT the Blackberry ones, those were awful - I'll get modded down for that and have been in the past when some idiot has pointed out those are still available and I pointed out I specifically said not those) the keys weren't just large, but (1) they didn't cover the screen and (2) they made the switch from portrait to landscape and back intuitive and not something done 90% of the time by accident (or correcting an accident.)
Those were great. I wish we still had them. Now even getting a headphone jack is a fight. And nobody has ever said they don't want a headphone jack.
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