When using J on my iPad I find that when I rotate to landscape mode I
quickly rotate back out of that mode.  The problem is that the
keyboard is just too big.

 When it comes to the keyboard in our J application I must confess
that I have a little Wolfram Alpha envy. The Alpha keyboard would be
quite wrong for us in the iPhone though.

Here is an idea that is only a little "out there", a future idea since
Eric probably doesn't want to branch into two platforms at this early
stage of the game.

Using iDevices I have been trained to touch type with my thumbs even
on the  iPad. In landscape mode we could have a large center area and
two special keyboards, on each each side. They would be J-centric
(what ever that means) would be layed out for thumb typing.  I think
something like this could work because of the way that is natural to
hold the iPad when in landscape mode. We could still even have some
kind of small popup keyboard for the bottom that some gesture could
trigger.

I think virtual keyboard(s) are a very interesting opportunity for us.

-David Leibs
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