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Keyboards Influenced by Touchscreens (2011)


influenced by touchscreens By now, you have probably used a touchscreen keyboard. We've come a long way from the clumsy "kiosk" computers that brought touchscreen keyboards to mainstream, a decade or two ago.

We've come a long way from the clumsy "kiosk" computers that brought touchscreen keyboards to mainstream, a decade or two ago. Well, for one, most touchscreen keyboards these days don't do key repeat -- instead, they'll pop up a menu of alternatives, often the same base letter with with various accents, diacritics and umlaut. I for one don't know how to type the various variations of the letters on a US keyboard, and as a Finn I actually need "ä" and "ö" sometimes.

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