The iPhone’s potential downfall: Lack of mechanical keyboard

The iPhone’s potential downfall: Lack of mechanical keyboard

If there’s a potential disaster awaiting Apple’s iPhone, it’s that the smart cellphone lacks a mechanical keyboard.

It forces users to use a touch-screen keyboard, something that may throw of millions of young people accustomed to texting quickly on basic phones and, for that matter, also older professionals used to typing slowly on a full keyboard offered by a Palm or Blackberry.

There’s a story about this “billion-dollar gamble” in the NYT today.

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