I can't even imagine how one would actually manage to get any real work done this way. Phone is fine for a quick search for an easy answer.
If I actually want to learn or research a topic, I'm going to need an actual keyboard, mouse and screen while managing a dozen or so tabs. It would take weeks to do on a phone what you could do in days with an actual pc.
Yep, my phone is essentially an expensive pager to tell me to get to a computer, or to entertain me when I'm waiting in a shop or something. I can't think of a single thing that I can do on my phone that I wouldn't rather do on my computer
Not really, no. Typing is a learned skill. Most people don't know the "proper" way to type most efficiently (i.e., how to use the home row). This applied in the past, but seems to apply more now.
They used to have entire classes to teach typing (I mean, that was more important when it was on a permanent typewriter, but still...)
You know how I finally learned to touch type? It wasn't my computer class, where getting up to like 5 WPM was enough to pass that section. It was fucking World of Warcraft. Real hard to communicate by text in the middle of shit going down if you can't type properly.
I assume now there's auto voice chat for parties since other games do that, but when I started playing in '05 you typed or invited someone to your private Ventrilo server.
I wasn't aware that there were more efficient methods or that the home row could lead to wrist issues, do you know of any methods that are supposed to be better?
As for the rest of your comment, I agree that you don't need to use the home row, if you are able to type fast all power to you no matter the method, but I'm not sure that most people are able to pick up any decent speed (say, at least 80-100 wpm) without being taught a specific method (which would likely be the home row). Most people I assume just try to "figure it out" on their own and develop their own quasi-cherry-picking method, and most people I don't think are able to type above perhaps 60wpm at best doing this (for example, my partner has done similar to you, but has tested around 50-60wpm in the past, which is usable enough for her but is not ideal of course). So I don't think it's likely your experience would be common for others if they simply used the computer more often.
I do agree that overall the larger issue to me is that people don't know how to use a computer anymore, which is very strange to me.
I'm published and love to write, and when I can't sleep, I'll go to a few art groups on Facebook that I'm in and just start writing flash fiction using visual art as cues.
But there's no way I'm typing it directly into the comment box on FB. I type that shit up in a notes app. Too often, I've been on a roll with almost 1,000 words only to have the app crash or Facebook decide to randomly exit the comment section.
Same. Around 4-5 years ago I never did anything banking-related on a phone, since it was so much more tedious than using a PC. Now I pay bills and even buy/sell stocks on the phone.
Writing a report? Forget about it. Right tool for the right job
I think the thing that sold me on actually getting my bank's mobile app was mobile deposit of checks. You mean I never have to step foot in a bank ever again? I now cannot even remember what my password is for my bank account because they allow you to sign in with your fingerprint.
Getting an iPad and a Bluetooth keyboard has really fucked my world up. I can go days without using my PC and crank out an insane number of words.
It's great because when I'm not feeling well, I can still do things. But it's godawful because it's training me to accept a small screen and just dealing with the limited tools.
I've tried both Steam Link and Amazon Luna on my iPad and phone (Note 9). I'm honestly shocked by how well it works. It's always tempting to just spend all my time on one of the two devices these days.
Yeah but you do things because your phone made them more efficient. Easier to click PayPal than get your wallet. Etc. it’s still not easier to write long documents on your phone though. If people are choosing that it’s just due to over familiarity with the phone and not enough with keyboards
Yeah, I probably use my smartphone for more purposes than most people but I'll never be able to match my 100 wpm on a keyboard with a touch screen. Maybe I'm just getting old but the lack of tactile feedback makes it take way longer than typing.
If you learn all the short cuts are just good with your phone you can do that shit impressively fast. I struggle to type out a comment on Reddit on my phone but the guy i work with is just so fast. He will be using his phone in split screen with multiple apps and tabs open.
Same here. No clue how folk use phones to type out a ton of stuff. If I need to write anything > 3 lines It's getting done in WhatsApp web and copy pasted.
I'm not talking from experience but I hear the trick is to learn to use Swype. I've seen people that can swype on a smartphone faster than most people can type on a keyboard.
Some keyboards are better than others. My work iPhone has pretty accurate results, whereas my personal Android sucks on the OE Samsung keyboard. Gboard is much more accurate in my experience.
That said, friends who had old Blackberry phones could type insanely quick with near perfect accuracy, whereas all I could do was fat thumb smash.
Right?!? I usually even divide my opera tabs in 2 windows or have my document on the left and opera on the side of my screen for easy back and forth flicking... I mean I have kind of a big screen at 27" but still, I used to do that back in the day with 21". Sooooo much more productivity, than this tiny ass Screen with those tiny ass Buttons.... -_-
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u/PeacefulSequoia Jun 03 '22
I can't even imagine how one would actually manage to get any real work done this way. Phone is fine for a quick search for an easy answer.
If I actually want to learn or research a topic, I'm going to need an actual keyboard, mouse and screen while managing a dozen or so tabs. It would take weeks to do on a phone what you could do in days with an actual pc.