Here’s an email I received last night. I think I really understand where this person is coming from.
Dear Josh,
You, my dear, are a fugging idiot. I heard you on the podcast. “Landscape keyboards are too wide”? WTF? And i thought you liked good keyboards. They are large and comfortable to use, and make you look like a power user. I have not seen any portrait keyboard phone that looks like it would be comfortable to type on. Especially Palm’s keyboards. Those buttons are tiny as hell and look horrible to use. Landscape keyboard phones make you more of a power user, and they look good, too. And also, on the issue of “the iPhone’s keyboard is the best virtual keyboard ever….well, what makes it better than HTC’s Hero keyboard? Better autocorrect? Can you prove that? Bigger letters I think would be the only advantage, past that, it is HTC’s all the way. You can add words to the custom dictionary, you have different suggestions as you type, it is more sensitive to taps. What is wrong with your brain? Just because you’re ugly as hell doesn’t mean you have to be stupid as hell as well, but it seems you are. Landscape keyboards are easily more useful than portrait, unless you are a baby and have tiny hands. Portait keyboards are good for babies, they are nice and cramped.
They are not for men. Of course, you aren’t a man, so I don’t think that matters anyway.
Thanks for this, A. Walters. I’ll take that constructive criticism to heart!
Update: I just received a very nice apology. That’s a start!
October 10th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Can you PROVE you’ll take that constructive criticism to heart?
October 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
What a dickhead
October 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I have never written hate mail before. Do I just not care enough about what I hear and see in life, or am I just to accepting of other peoples points of view?
It looks like a lot of fun. Of course I would have to forget how to spell as well as how to form a coherent sentence.
Thanks for sharing this one. I think it has inspired me to write my own for I to want to feel the rush of writing a scathing (anonymous) letter and hitting send.
Great letter, keep sharing the love
October 10th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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October 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
It says something t your credit when people listen to you while admitting that they don’t like you.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Shit Josh, you got TOLD by a power user.
A power user!
October 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Wow, an email about mobile keyboards peppered with personal insults! Quite impressive the dude thinks the way someone looks and a keyboard on a cell phone are relevant…
October 10th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I am surprised the capacitive vs resistive flamewar didn’t come up.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Josh I think that Engadget should have more features on how to “look like a power user.”
October 10th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Devil’s Advocate - You did say, “you know where to send the hate mail.”
October 12th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I like Tyson’s idea. Engadget should do a “look like a power user” feature. That’d be funny
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Josh, I can’t believe you don’t want to look like a power user.
Everyone (I mean everyone) wants to look like a power user. That’s what getting a power phone is all about. Looking. Like. A. Freaking. Power. User.
And the Bold is obviously not a power user phone. Or the Pre.
Obviously.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Damn it if the feisty mailer isn’t right, I’m with him all the way - at least when it comes to the talk of on-screen keyboards.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Hey Josh, just wanted to see if you’d answer at least ONE of my comments in here, since commenting on Engadget doesn’t seem to do the trick… so, how did you get to be Engadget’s editor in chief? It’s like the ultimate job for us utter geeks.
January 10th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Joshua being ugly as hell? I guess you won’t look like a “power user” if your fashionable. What makes Joshuas good looks even more ironic is that he is the editor-in-chief of what essentially is a nerd blog.