Stupid thread....

These are nice when you don't have an Arabic keyboard around, but it's much faster to type on a real Arabic Keyboard...

The original blog post doesn't say anything about them being dead. Why did you make that conclusion.

I type in Arabic just as fast as I type in any other language.
يمكنني الطباعة باللغة العربية بنفس سرعتي في أية لغة أخرى.