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Apple's current autocorrect is skewed towards verbal, not typo, errors. Apple wants your voice. Implementing this deliberately worse change also gave Apple a pa
by IndySun 3y ago
Apple's current autocorrect is skewed towards verbal, not typo, errors. Apple wants your voice. Implementing this deliberately worse change also gave Apple a path to 'improve autocorrect'. Comments are correct, T9 was based on the keyboard and common mistyped keys, simple, and effective.
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- IndySun 3y agoDon't take my word for it, as you all blindly have not. Take the word 'lie', often mistyped as 'loe'. This is because the o is next to the i. After accidentally typing 'loe', look at what iOS offers to replace it. low, lot, Joe. Soundalikes. This is because iOS autocorrect is skewered towards spoken vocabulary and not commonly mistyped words in english on a typical 1874 Sholes & Glidden qwerty layout. T9 worked because of this distinction. And iOS does not work as consistently because of this distinction. My 'feeling' is that Apple were very much aware of this from the iOS outset, and not wanting to use T9, offered this poorer auto-correct, and are now riding over the hill shouting 'we've solved it'. This may not be so for other languages.