TEXT EDITING ON MOBILE: THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM

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Android and iOS share a common problem: they copied desktop text editing conventions, but without a menu bar or mouse. This forced them to overload the tap gesture with a wide range of actions: placing the cursor, moving it, selecting text, and invoking a pop-up menu. This results in overly complicated and ambiguous taps, leading to a variety of user errors.