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Originally Posted by stonetools
With the iphone, Apple made the bet that at the smartphone level of computing, a physical keyboard was unnecessary. Lots of people disagreed, pointing to the Blackberry as the defining paradigm of the smartphone user experience.
We can now agree that Apple was right.
Keyboards are neccesary to the PC experience: optical drives are not at this point.
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Keyboards are useful, not necessary, same as the optical drive. You can work with the mouse and the virtual keyboard on a PC. Touch screens remove the need for a mouse. But just as you can attach an external optical drive, you can also attach a keyboard.