Technology is everywhere today and everyone has a smartphone.
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Think about the size of that device. It's only two -- two and half -- inches and we're
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trying to cram an entire 26 key keyboard into that space.
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It's so many keys. I feel constricted by the keyboard.
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I just feel very overwhelmed. There are so many buttons.
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It's time to think about how can we do this better using the technology that we have today
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and that's where Gmail Tap comes in.
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So I've always known that I was related to Samuel F.B. Morse, he's my great-grandfather's
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grandfather's brother.
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When Reed Morse first came to my office and he said that he had an idea for bringing Morse
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Code back, I got really excited.
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Gmail Tap replaces the default keyboard in the Gmail application with one that only has
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two buttons.
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Two keys and every single letter in the alphabet can be spelled using just those two commands.
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Morse code is perfect. It's just a dot … and a dash. What's simpler than that.
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When we first conceived of Gmail Tap it was all about making input on the phone faster.
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We realized that we could double the speed again by doubling the number of keyboards
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you have.
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You can actually split your screen and send two messages at once to two completely different
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recipients.
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Gmail Tap multitasking. It's an improvement over speech. You can say two things with your
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fingers that your mouth can only say one of.
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I really am excited to see where -- where tapping takes us.
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I think the people who will be best served by Gmail Tap are people with fat fingers.
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People are going to be twice as productive and people are going to be able to write emails
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anytime they want.
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You can tap it in the morning. You can tap it at night. You can tap it in the bathroom.
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It's a dot and a dash.
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To have a conversation with the entire world. It's -- it's great.
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