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Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares [...long and detailed description of the problems and how t
by iainmerrick 3y ago
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares [...long and detailed description of the problems and how their research attempts to solve them...] Unfortunately, shipping something like Eloquent would be challenging.
What a strange attitude to take! What’s the point of the research if it’s not aimed at shipping anything?
Hopefully this is just a miscommunication and isn’t meant to be as passive-aggressive as it sounds.
- scottjenson 3y agoPassive agressive? (I'm the author) I did research to find a better solution. I did and discovered a wide range of market forces (e.g. people don't like to change) that will make it difficult to ship. But the last thing I intended was to imply giving up. I said very clearly in the post that my solution, Eloquent, was meant to be one possible solution. There are likely many others! My goal of this post was to clearly describe the problem so people a) understood b) knew there were alternatives and c) we could get fired up to actually solve this (even though it WILL be hard to change)
- iainmerrick 3y agoAha, I’m glad to hear that! I did misinterpret it after all - thank you for the correction. I think it was most likely the phrase “shipping something like Eloquent would be challenging”, implying it isn’t going to happen, that gave me that vibe.
- LegitShady 3y ago>What’s the point of the research if it’s not aimed at shipping anything? research!