Why is it so hard for people to explain what their product is on the product's web page? Two sentences explaining why this keyboard is interesting and why I should put my e-mail into your box would be welcome.
Yeah, I see that there's a video. No, I'm not going to watch it.
It's fairly obvious that this feature was stolen from the BlackBerry Passport's touch-sensitive physical keyboard.
It irks me when an original and "groundbreaking" (supposedly) idea is presented by an unpopular company and ignored, but when a snazzy new startup or Apple itself decides to come along and rewrite it for the most popular platform it's lauded like sliced bread.
The saddest part about this is that the biggest players do it most shamelessly without any sort of nod towards the inspiration, and often instead even claim to be the only ones, or the first to introduce such a feature. In recent memory i've seen Google, Firefox and Apple pull such things.
irks you? This is nerd logic. It is just marketing and before seeing it here, I haven't seen it ever. so likely a failing on blackberry's marketing team.
[+] [-] mikeash|11 years ago|reply
Yeah, I see that there's a video. No, I'm not going to watch it.
[+] [-] morbius|11 years ago|reply
It irks me when an original and "groundbreaking" (supposedly) idea is presented by an unpopular company and ignored, but when a snazzy new startup or Apple itself decides to come along and rewrite it for the most popular platform it's lauded like sliced bread.
[+] [-] robjama|11 years ago|reply
Not sure what you're referring to. We started working on Next in the summer before Blackberry Passport was released.
[+] [-] Mithaldu|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] googletron|11 years ago|reply
ugh.
[+] [-] hartator|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] el_duderino|11 years ago|reply