New story at BusinessWeek. Why use the tough touch keypad for the iPhone when you could just speak your emails or texts? Nuance, the leader in dictation software for PCs, is working on similar technology for the fancy phone. (Thats what I call an iPhone.) Rather than fumble with the touch screen, many enterprise users stick with the BlackBerry for its keyboard. Regardless of how many business apps Apple develops, business folk aren’t willing to endanger the main reason for using a BlackBerry–email. This creates an opportunity for a company like Nuance, who is working towards letting people speak their emails. I would link to the story but I can’t copy and paste the link and I’m writing this post with the fancy phone*.
Speaking of the FP, I’d been having trouble with the mic on the earphones. I went into the Apple store and they replaced them for me, no problem, no questions asked. While I was there I saw people are still waiting out front for the phone. Yikes! Photo below.
*Did some editing on the laptop. I forgot to save the changes I made to the draft as I worked on it in the iPhone. It really is tiring to use that tiny screen and that keyboard to type out long texts, so I just cheated and worked it using a full keyboard. My thumbs thanked me. Heres the BW link.
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