Poll: do you care that iPhone is missing a physical keyboard?
![zd-defaultauthor-russell-shaw.jpg](https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/aab0ecb7fa6229ddd570d9e60960c37cdb96c2ed/2014/12/04/3c90fefa-7b70-11e4-9a74-d4ae52e95e57/zd-defaultauthor-russell-shaw.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&frame=1&height=192&width=192)
On the plus side, John admits that the absence of the keyboard frees up valuable real estate for the device's 3.5- inch screen.
"A big screen makes the phone attractive for alternative uses like watching movies and that could open up new revenue streams for Apple and its partner, AT&T," he writes."
But then the lack of the screen could spark some usability issues. John feels that pecking on the onscreen representation of a keyboard with thumbs or fingers might be an unfamiliar experience. John even gets an expert to weigh in on that very aspect:
"The tactile feedback of a mechanical keyboard is a pretty important aspect of human interaction,” said Bill Moggeridge, a founder of Ideo, an industrial design company in Palo Alto, Calif. "If you take that away you tend to be very insecure."
Because I think that tapping on an onscreen keyboard really won't require that much adjustment, I am going to reserve any criticism of the iPhone's lack of a "physical" keyboard. But what about you?
[poll id=75]