Comment The truth is: people don't like wubi (Score 2) 562
As much as I like wubi input method and actually use it to type Chinese, it is hardly used among most of the natives. For anyone who actually knows Chinese, wubi today is real PITA compared to modern pinyin methods like offered by Soguo or Google.
These days, wubi no longer offers dramatic speed advantages like it was in the old days, where pinyin was very simple and dumb (one of the earlier pinyin "smart" input programs was http://www.unispim.com/, afaik). Today, most pinyin input programs usually employ sophisticated heuristics which supports shortcuts for many common words and phrases (e.g. you don't have to type "woxiangyao", just "wxy" is enough), they are auto-learning, they accumulate people's character usage statistics in a cloud, etc.
Even those folks who normally use wubi often use it in combination with pinyin, 'cause they often forget the code for some rarely used or complicated character. Praised fast typing rate of wubi is dramatically crippled once you stop and had to type a character by trial-and-error. It rarely happens with pinyin.
Wubi is still good for people who do not know many Chinese characters (how they're pronounced), e.g. for learners. For native Chinese, wubi offers little to none advantages over pinyin these days.
These days, wubi no longer offers dramatic speed advantages like it was in the old days, where pinyin was very simple and dumb (one of the earlier pinyin "smart" input programs was http://www.unispim.com/, afaik). Today, most pinyin input programs usually employ sophisticated heuristics which supports shortcuts for many common words and phrases (e.g. you don't have to type "woxiangyao", just "wxy" is enough), they are auto-learning, they accumulate people's character usage statistics in a cloud, etc.
Even those folks who normally use wubi often use it in combination with pinyin, 'cause they often forget the code for some rarely used or complicated character. Praised fast typing rate of wubi is dramatically crippled once you stop and had to type a character by trial-and-error. It rarely happens with pinyin.
Wubi is still good for people who do not know many Chinese characters (how they're pronounced), e.g. for learners. For native Chinese, wubi offers little to none advantages over pinyin these days.
