He's not the only one. Far faster than anyone on a chiclet keyboard phone. You don't even have a clue how the iPhone typing works.
You have gone off on a tangent insisting that the first I-phone could do everything better than its competitors... you may be an expert, but you have missed the whole gist of what made the first I-phone great and why with exceptional marketing it took off and made history.
One thing that I will give Apple a lot of credit for with the first I-phone is something that you do not seem to have a clue about. Microsoft threw the kitchen sink into Windows Mobile and envisioned phones as micro-sized PC. We users ended up having to do all sorts of things to “customize” our phones to get rid of features that we didn't use which were slowing down our performance.
Apple recognized that a phone was a device better suited to content consumption than content creation. Users didn't have to go to a lot of trouble to disable features they would never use that were just taking up space and using system resources. This not only improved performance, it cut down on user frustration. This is one of the reasons users liked the first I-phone. That is what Apple did... the first I-phone may have been a glorified feature phone, but people loved it.
According to you... we are almost all using copies of Apple's multi-touch input devices on our phones, tablets, and even laptops. Isn't that why Apple has sued everyone and their brother? If that is the case then most of us are very familiar with how “iphone typing” works. And a lot of us do use touch screen “typing” when we are out and about for posting here on Free Republic.
I do not know of anyone who is capable of typing on their touch screens at 81 words per minute. The video you provided is quite amazing. I do know lots of people such as myself who can type reasonably well on a laptop, who end up with all sorts of weird typos almost every time they enter posts from screens of their phones or tablets. And these posts were not entered at anywhere near 80 words per minute despite years of use. Text entered on multi-touch screen devices is kind of a joke. If you want to claim this travesty as one of Apple's revolutionary ideas... go for it. I was able to enter text much faster and more accurately on the keyboards built into my PPC-6700 and later on my HTC Touch Pro II, than I ever have been on my more recent phones and tablets. I will go ahead and give Apple their share of the credit for this step backwards.
You continually mischaracterize what Apple did. Apple had ONE lawsuit. They sued Samsung, not "everyone and their brother." They did not sue any other Android makers. Other lawsuits that Apple has entered are the common course of FRAND lawsuits that come about in the course of licensing disputes where the patent holder breaks their FRAND contracts with the Standards organization and attempts what is called a "patent hold-up" against the licensee, demanding more than the FRAND rates they agreed to accept. . . but it is not Apple suing due to an Android maker infringing Apple's patents.
Previously, Apple did sue Microsoft for infringing their copyrights and patents for their Intellectual Properties. They wound up with a judge who did not understand such things as IP and won on only one claim. . . and were appealing his rulings. Then there was the lawsuit on Microsoft REALLY stealing Apple's quicktime code (there were telltale markers in the code such as Apple's engineer's social security number and his mother's maiden name imbedded in the code) to make their Windows Video Player software work. They were going to lose that case big time. . . and that resulted in the so-called 1997 "bail-out" of Apple but which was rather Microsoft Settling all prior lawsuit claims from Apple in a three-part agreement for Apple dropping all such claims.
For doing that Microsoft agreed to pay Apple $150 million in cash disguised as a purchase of preferred non-voting 5 year restricted stock, re-open the development, publishing, and distribution of Microsoft Office for Mac which they had stopped as a pressure ploy in the lawsuit for a minimum of five years, license from Apple the in-suit Intellectual Property for undisclosed future licensing fees, AND license TO Apple all of Microsoft's IP that Apple cared to use at NO COST. For Apple's part, Apple would drop all lawsuits, including the QuickTime suit and Windows appeals, license the software to Microsoft, agree to including MS Internet Explorer, along with Netscape Navigator, as an optional default browser in all new Macs and distributions of upgrade macOS, and issue the stock certificate. i.e. Microsoft lost and Apple won.
You have gone off on a tangent insisting that the first I-phone (sic) could do everything better than its competitors... you may be an expert, but you have missed the whole gist of what made the first I-phone (sic) great and why with exceptional marketing it took off and made history.
As for your claims that I am insisting that the original "I-phone (sic)," which you cannot even spell correctly, showing how little you know about that device after ten years of its being on the market, was the be-all-and-end-all, I did say that it was the 3G that resulted in the iPhone really taking off. Note the correct spelling, fireman.
You yourself are pointing out that the users of the Windows phone OS had to constantly tweak those devices and continually work on it to make it work. I recall vividly the complaints coming from that quarter about users having freezes and needing to reboot phones more than daily to keep them working. That was something that was never needed on an iPhone.
I do have a clue about what you claim I don't. But it wasn't and isn't germane to this discussion. No one was going to use a small screen to work on a spread sheet of any size, and Microsoft missed that, even going so far to make a CE variant of Excel. . . which with the low resolution of their phones could not be seen as a spread sheet but literally only as a window on a spread sheet, obviating the benefit of a spread sheet.
Steve jobs famously said "Perfection is found in removing those things that are not absolutely essential." That was the essence of the design of the iPhone. . . to make it intuitive to use.
If you think that productivity typing is supposed to be done on any mobile device the size of a phone, you are thinking entirely wrong. You yourself just said Apple realized these devices should be content consumption devices, but now you complain about not being able to type at 80 words per minute, yet I showed you it is entirely possible, with training, to do so. You just don't want to learn how. You also refuse to accept that Apple made a sea-change in the approach to the way data was input on mobile devices to a better modality, one that allowed a larger, better, clearer screen than what was available on devices with chiclet keyboards. If such physical keyboards were so much better, they would not have gone by the wayside as they have. The court of public opinion would have kept them alive. It did not. Ergo, they are not as useful as you claim except for a very small minority of die-hard fans that cannot maintain a profitable market for them.
You've used Android touch screens and claim that experience applies to iPhones. I find it doesn't. Apple's predictive typing is better. . . and if you like, you can turn it off. One other difference is that Apple's typing does not register a key until you remove your finger, not when you touch it, resulting in far fewer errors of typing. Since you can see what character is being touched before you remove your finger, it is easier to know whether you have the correct key.
Now, Fireman15, you are living in the past. I really don't care about the phone you were using in 2006. I know what the pundits were saying in 2007, and to a man, none of them found that any phone prior to the iPhone came close. You can use your defective memory to claim that a phone with only 128MB of memory with single touch resistive screen, is somehow the same as a phone with 4 GB or 8 GB of directly addressable memory and had a far larger color gamut to display on its larger, higher resolution screen, you go right ahead.
That Windows phone and its operating system is in the dustbin of history, along with the Blackberry, Nokia, and others, because they could not compete with the design that Apple introduced on January 9, 2007 as much as you dance and caper around trying to say yours had better capabilities. It was was bested by what you claim was mere hype from Apple. . . that no one could meet until almost three years later when the first Android phones hit the market copying Apple's designs.