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"...Because pinyin is used mostly in the People's Republic of China, pinyin methods frequently work better when inputting simplified Chinese. Depending on the quality of the traditional Chinese support of the system in question, input of traditional Chinese may not work, or it might not be possible to input some characters, or some of the convenience features might not work..."

This is incorrect. Pinyin is purely a romanization scheme based on pronounciation. Traditional Chinese doesn't have different words, just a more complex character set. I myself currently use the Taiwanese input system with Hanyu Pinyin turned on for typing purposes.

According to PC Home (A Taiwanese PC magazine), Hanyu Pinyin was rated #2 fastest Chinese input system. (Whether for simplified or traditional)