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I used Swype on release, then not for years, until picking it up again recently, when I found that I still loved the input method but made tons of errors. The l
by telchior 5y ago
I used Swype on release, then not for years, until picking it up again recently, when I found that I still loved the input method but made tons of errors. The lack of accuracy had me thinking I'd just gotten old and lost fine motor control -- I couldn't imagine that a single-function piece of software had gotten that much worse.
It's an interesting difference from other software: with almost anything else, there's a UI that helps evaluate whether the software degraded. Swype doesn't have any such contextual clue. I'd imagine this problem will pop up a lot in the future with various user-assist, AI-based tech.
- adhesive_wombat 5y ago> Swype doesn't have any such contextual clue. Detecting when a user deletes a word and replaces it with a word that was previously in the options list seems like it would be a fairly strong signal.
- telchior 5y agoIf you saw an update and then were immediately exposed to the new behavior, maybe so. But for someone who used it for maybe a couple years, stopped and then came back years later, it's extremely difficult to realize that a quiet feature like this is new. Contrast that with, say, any Microsoft Office product where coming back a few years later is like returning to a city you used to know and finding all the old buildings you knew razed to the ground and an entirely new street layout.
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