07-03-2024, 08:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2024, 08:53 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
The problem is that all the office applications out there are utterly unsuitable for mobile devices. What we need is a mobile-friendly, i.e., touch-friendly, office suite. Which obviously includes working properly with a virtual keyboard, something at which the office applications out there utterly fail. But they also fail at mobile-friendliness in other ways, e.g., you have to go out of your way to hide large parts of the UI (and the features that go with those) through the UI customization dialogs to make the UI fit on the display at all. And the applications that would work the best have been unmaintained for years (AbiWord) or even decades (Word 97). Adding a physical keyboard is just a workaround for inadequate software.