Monday, 18 June 2012

iPhones and sausage fingers



By Tim Richardson

At a recent meeting I was chatting with Michael who told me how he had recently written a story on an iPad.  We joked about it – until I let slip that I had once written a story on an iPhone.

I was out and about in London and I received an urgent call from a client who needed something written there and then.  Without my laptop to hand, I did the only thing I could.  I tapped it out on my iPhone.

Let me tell you, trying to bash out 250 words on an iPhone – especially if you’ve got sausage fingers like me – is hard work.  But, after much swearing and frustration I did it and sent it off to the client.  I wouldn’t recommend it as a regular method – but it does at least prove that it can be done. 

Coincidentally, only last week I had to sub some copy using my iPhone while I was on a train to London.  To be honest, it wasn’t too bad.  I’m just relieved I’ve never had to tap something out of any length using old-fashioned predictive text.