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> Autocorrect incorrectly assuming the word you want to use replaced that message taking three days to arrive at its destination. Seems like you don't remember
by stinos 10y ago
> Autocorrect incorrectly assuming the word you want to use replaced that message taking three days to arrive at its destination.
Seems like you don't remember email on your PC.
Or simply sms without autocorrect. OP has a point, but this indeed is a bad example. As far as I can see autocorrect for messaging being wrong didn't replace anything, it's something new which just doesn't always work properly. Which is exactly the point of the article.
- thinkmassive 10y agoI could type faster using T9 on a 10-key flip phone than I can on an iPhone today. On Android I used SwiftKey for many years and would bet I'm fastest on that, but I decided to try an iPhone 6S and it seems like a huge step back regarding input. I still can't believe they don't have a swype-like input method.
- ansgri 10y agoiOS supports third-party keyboards since, like, 8th edition. Exactly what made iPhone acceptable to me. Not that I'm too happy with it: for some reason my SwiftKey's gesture-recognizing algorithm seems to be getting worse over time, while next-word prediction becomes better.
- thinkmassive 10y agoOh wow, that's embarrassing for me, but thank you!
- dmreedy 10y agoI think there's a little more to it than that; I feel like the rise of autocorrect is pretty strongly correlated with the rise of glass keyboards, an intrinsically imprecise input method. I remember being pretty damn precise (and fast), typing blind, while pounding out sms on my Motorola Razr.