“Every single person had problems with targeting, using the clipboard, and made lots and lots of errors.”
Android and iOS copied desktop text editing and dropped the mouse and the menu bar, so one tap has to mean place the cursor, start a drag, or open a menu. Jenson gave 10 people simple tasks like moving a word, and many said they’d rather delete everything and retype. He built a better prototype, Eloquent, and showed it at UIST 2021. Nothing ships because, in his words, the challenges are political, not technical.