{"id":1623,"date":"2010-04-04T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2010-04-04T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:34:25","slug":"ipad-virtual-keyboard-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"iPad Virtual Keyboard censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This thought has come to mind as there are many voices out there who have commented on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\">iPad&#8217;s <\/a> &#8216;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_keyboard\">virtual Keyboard<\/a><\/i>&#8216;.  Many have found it hard to type on and found themselves unable to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Touch_typing\">touch type<\/a> on it as the very nature of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Touchscreen\">touch sensitivity<\/a> makes it impossible make contact with the &#8216;keys&#8217;. In other words, you can&#8217;t type long missives, emails or any other textual input. <\/p>\n<p>What if the <strong>iPad<\/strong> is a form of Censorship? Making it hard to comment on the internet, create content, write Twitters\/email\/Blogs whatever. Because the keyboard it too hard and frustrating to enter anything other than simple search phrases. A consumer <strong>ONLY<\/strong> device, made to fill the passive vessels that constitutes the bulk of the internet readership? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/uploadedFiles\/wwwpewtrustsorg\/Reports\/Society_and_the_Internet\/pew_internet_content_022904.pdf\">Content omnivores <\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\">Pew Research<\/a> calls them, an advertising and News consuming only population. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thought has come to mind as there are many voices out there who have commented on the iPad&#8217;s &#8216;virtual Keyboard&#8216;. Many have found it hard to type on and found themselves unable to touch type on it as the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1623\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iPad Virtual Keyboard censorship<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,48,7,336,35,132,32,206],"tags":[654,243,371,716,693],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-blog","category-information","category-internet","category-ipad","category-lifestyle","category-marketing","category-social-networks","category-twitter","tag-apple","tag-censorship","tag-consumer","tag-ipad","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}