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This appears to be mostly about privacy concerns and on-device performance. Google hardly needs the computational power of even millions of phones versus the be
by kornish 10y ago
This appears to be mostly about privacy concerns and on-device performance. Google hardly needs the computational power of even millions of phones versus the behemoths that are their data centers.
(and the phones are only part-time, at that!)
- nudpiedo 10y agoI am sorry, but I can't disagree more with you... especially after I worked in such kind of corporations I can tell you that they only care for privacy if it is a selling point in a marketing chart. Big companies are always hungry for newer resources, especially the little teams that need to fight their peers to get more budge.
- Jabbles 10y agoConsider that it's not Google as a whole, it's the keyboard team, who obviously have only a small fraction of Google's compute power. Also, gboard is installed on between 500 million and 1 billion phones. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin&hl=en_GB https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... So I can't confidently dismiss the computational cost away just yet.
- kornish 10y agoAh, this is really interesting. And I suppose phones will only get more and more powerful going forward. Thanks to you and nudpiedo for the respectful counter!