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Title: Why I want a keyboard on Apple Watch 3.0
Post by: HCK on May 23, 2016, 04:05:20 pm
Why I want a keyboard on Apple Watch 3.0

A keyboard on Apple Watch may not be great, but it would be better than what we have now.

At I/O 2016, Google revealed that it would be adding text input into Android Wear 2.0. That means people with Android-based smart watches will be able to reply to text messages using an on-screen keyboard. It's something I've always wanted on my Apple Watch, and something I very much hope Apple adds with watchOS 3.0.

My colleague, Daniel Bader, disagrees. He thinks Apple should not add a keyboard to the Watch. I understand his point of view. Apple Watch has a tiny screen, and a tiny keyboard it is probably a cumbersome way to send a message. I want it anyway.

With Android Wear 2.0, Google is handling text input in three ways. You can use canned responses via Smart Replies, a handwriting recognition tool, which allows you to draw letters and numbers on the screen that are turned into text, and a swipe-to-type keypad.

Smart Replies let you respond to text messages and emails but without much p...

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