Absrtact: Input method may be one of the oldest products I have ever contacted. Remote Intelligent ABC, and then far ahead of the Sogou input method, to the subsequent mobile phone after the various types of mobile input method, the market seems to be a pattern of nothing too much change, the products are also big
The input method may be one of the oldest products I have ever touched. Remote Intelligent ABC, then far ahead of the Sogou input method, to the mobile phone after the emergence of various types of mobile input method, the market seems to have no big changes in the pattern, the products are similar. So, input method market still can break through space?
Mazhankei's answer is yes. He used to be Sogou input method of the first product manager, experienced the number of users from zero to 100 million of the process, called Sogou Input method of the father. IOS 8 Open Input method, he felt is an opportunity to pull up the team to do the tomato input method, two weeks after the online. The first edition may be temporarily inferior to the existing Sogou Baidu and other input methods, after all, these veterans have many years of accumulation, but Mazhankei that the idea of the tomato input method and other home has many different places, for example, the mainstream input method in the input characters, such as playing a DA alternative Chinese characters are evenly arranged The tomato input rule is to enlarge the area of the first alternative Chinese characters by nearly 8 times times, which makes it easier for you to select more quickly and improve the efficiency of the input.
This design is because Mazhankei found that most users in the input, the choice of the first alternative word is greater than the next few, in this case, why should the size of each alternative word? Internal tests show that the input speed on the phone can be about 10% faster with the first alternative block being designed to increase the area.
Mazhankei also said several of the features being designed will be released in the next few releases, mainly around the specific scene of input on the phone to do optimization. These optimizations sound interesting, but they are very convenient to use, but after they are done. Mazhankei before the Sogou method is famous for this ability, many bright spot features are his works, such as input RQ, you can display a variety of forms of the current date, the digital lunar or traditional.
Tomato Input Method of the opponents are quite strong, sogou Baidu flying touch Treasure, each in the technical channels have their own advantages, rely on these optimizations to kill a road, may still have difficulty. But one day the catfish came in, the whole input method market is also a benign role.
Mobile phone tablets Such portable devices in the office of the application is accelerating the development of input methods and efficiency increasingly become office bottlenecks, some foreign new input methods such as 8pen, Fleksy and minuum are also trying different directions. Voice does not give the force of the background, the input method on the mobile end there is no small opportunity.