Oliver Reichenstein on design

@elefontpress: Why isn’t Apple as smart as you, re cursor buttons?
OR: I think Apple is smart enough. The reason why they don’t have a keyboard extension is that outside writing apps the keyboard extension is not so essential.

This might surprise you, but one in 20 users actually dislikes iA Writer’s keyboard extension, because it takes away some space. We faced the choice of making the keyboard extension optional, or keeping the user interface minimal and hoping that many of the 5 per cent who dislike the keyboard extension will come to accept or like it in time.

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