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sadly, there is absolutely no way you can judge typing on an ipad in a few minutes.. or even a hour.. especially not in a store setting. you have to take it home. get comfortable with it. try it out for days.. weeks. it's learning a whole new keyboard, a new layout, a new arrangement, and obviously a new surface.
anyone who says "i tried it for 5 minutes and i [loved|hated] it!" is just full of crap. i'm not saying you'll reverse your opinion in a week. but it's just not the kind of thing you can judge that quickly. you will learn muscle memory. you will learn shortcuts. you will learn to trust the auto-correction, and the auto-correction will learn your vocabulary. none of that can be accomplished in a few minutes.
there are quite a few tricks iOS has that i wish got ported over to the desktop. double space for a period. hitting a meta key and remapping a smaller sized keyboard from alpha to a numeric and symbol layout. yes. i could get some software and remap all this myself but it would be nice if it were built in. that small apple BT keyboard would be amazing if it had that kind of functionality built in with my iMac. when i'm sitting at a desktop and a keyboard i find myself thinking things like meta-J is a dollar sign. might have to invest some time looking into it.
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