At my current job, I spend roughly 80% of my time working on documentation of software to eventually be developed. This means I spend a large chunk of my time typing away in Word, and on this project lots of time filling in documentation on components of the UML model we are developing in RSA.
Word is pretty slick, it provides decent (if not good) spell checking and grammar checking. RSA is not. So the point of this post.... less about phones but more about tools. How is it that cell phones and smartphones can provide spell checking and predictive type and tools for software developers can't.
So if you think about it, software developers wrote all the software that we use on phones, they wrote the software that was used to developer for the phones...and so on and so on.
My wife's BB Pearl has a great predictive type and my G1 has pretty good predictive type... so this is not a new technology. What surprises me even more is that with the evolution of the touchscreen virtual keyboards these tools have even become more of a necessity and more and more common. And when you really think about it, its part of the basic operating system.... so why not with actual computers.... the more and more I think about it....my next 'desktop/personal computing device' will be a gadget, a tablet, something less of a 'PC' and more of a toy, why, well because tools like this will simply be there.
update: I barely finished writing this article and then jumped over to Google Reader to catch up on the world and say that Google just acquired BlindType. So again.. if smartphones can do this... why can't desktop software and OSs.
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