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'Punctuation Is Dead Because the iPhone Keyboard Killed It'
Tuesday November 12, 2024. 02:10 AM , from Slashdot/Apple
The real problem, at the end of the day, is that iPhones -- not Android phones -- are popular among Gen Z buyers, especially in the US -- a market with a huge online presence and influence. Add that most smartphone users tend to stick to default apps on their phones, so most of them end up with the default iPhone keyboard instead of looking at better (albeit often even slower) alternatives. And it's that same keyboard that's encouraging them to be lazy instead of making it easier to add punctuation. So yes, I blame the iPhone for killing the period and slaughtering the comma, and I think both of those are great offenders in the death of the capital letter. But trends are cyclical, and if the cassette player can make a comeback, so can the comma. Who knows, maybe in a year or two, writing like a five-year-old will be passe, too, and it'll be trendy to use proper grammar again. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/11/11/225255/punctuation-is-dead-because-the-iphone-keyboard-kil...
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