
It also takes way longer.Īnd, on a personal note, all these specialized things seem to forget that there's a fairly substantial market (a minority, but not a tiny one) that prefers the larger split keyboards like the MS Natural Feel line of keyboards and its competitors. If you have to type for a living (I.e., software developers, BAs, QA people, writers, etc.) or just find yourself needing to write a longer email, then a screen-based keyboard is just asking for typos and sometimes fantastically weird/funny auto-corrects. If you just need to text your significant other or a friend or otherwise take a short note or write a short email, then a screen keyboard is fine.

Which is exactly why smartphones with real physical keyboards have dominated the marked, while keyboardless slabs have died out. Don't believe me? Type for an hour or two on a table, let me know how your fingertips feel."

Your fingers will seriously hurt from typing on this in any normal capacity. Keys on a keyboard absorb the impact from your fingers.

Quote from /u/atello on reddit: "Typing on a flat surface is a real pain.
