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Except that there are a lot of people who actually like having a physical QWERTY keyboard on their phone, for example. Just as there are people who would actually quite welcome that.

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Not everyone wants a touchscreen phone, I don't own one, I own a smartphone with basic keys on it, but I know plenty of people who actively use a Blackberry for that reason.

Here's the thing: things sometimes stay as they are because no-one thought to improve them, and sometimes they stay as they are because it's reasonably optimised as it is.

You know what's really weird though? Google+ works how we're leaning towards - you create circles for things, which is a form of groups, and control which groups see content. In fact, if you look at the way things are, it's even closer a model to what G+ does than anything else, but I guess that's wrong and we should implement purely for the lowest common denominator, despite it not being the general baseline that works best? (Specifying a list of names for each topic is pointless, especially if it's the same list of names each time. Surely then a group would be a FAR better solution?)

Here's the thing: optimizations are sacred but there's a time where things need to be rethought and reinvented. Then before another rethink there need to are optimizations!