I wonder how this would feel in hand, grip seems to have unbalanced weight when I mimic on my iPhone pro max 11. Like it wants to tip over but maybe if you really have something physical at the bottom it is not that bad.
Blackberry sacrificed screen for the keyboard so balance was all OK.
I also caught myself thinking these buttons were too round and too tiny as compared to my on-screen keyboard. Also not having the luxury of seeing all my special characters appear on the keys when pressing the 123/#+= etc to toggle keyboards would be something to get used to. E.g. Type a {} or ~.
There is a lot of "I" in this story. The examples given do not come over as overly genius, but rather trivial. The whole story comes over as written from the perspective the world revolves around the author rather than the author participating in the world. It seems it is the author misunderstanding the complexity of the world rather than the other way around.
This is an interesting observation. In a podcast [0], Mark Zuckerberg states that his vision behind Facebook has always been to connect people. To make them part of a group as he stresses that every individual has a need for that at some point in life. He stresses that he wants to make this possible even for those with rare conditions that would require a group spread throughout the world. So enable them as they would not be able normally as their neighborhood would simply not have the correct prerequisites to form that group (i.e members).
Your statement that reddit is better at this than Facebook would be in line with Reddit passing Facebook if indeed the purpose of both sites is as described by you and Mark Zuckerberg.
The boringly simple knowledge base.