I remember like seven years ago my android keyboard's autocorrect was completely fine? Not only would it seem to remember my common finger slip-induced typos and correct them on sight, but it could also autocorrect typos with numbers in them, ie recognizing "3" as a missed "e", etc

But nowadays my autocorrect fucking sucks rank ass? It's awful at guessing the correction for typos as it looks like (to me) it only uses the first letter as the basis for autocorrect, and if I mistyped the first letter then I'm shit out of luck for autocorrect picking up, like there's absolutely no way it could possibly guess what I mean when I say "I want vurgers for dinner"

But somehow it's gotten even WORSE than just bad at its job lately? I've had regular instances of the autocorrect changing a correctly spelled and grammatically correct word to something completely different. Just yesterday it autocorrected the word 'with' in the middle of a sentence to 'WI', as in the acronym for Wisconsin.

what is the point of making your basic functionality shittier? to sell premium keyboard apps? jesus christ

  • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    Apple nukes their whole ios every few years. Android just layers on more and more shit with each up date. In all likely hood it's just a giant mess and getting worse and worse due to all the new script being shoved on top of old script. That's my guess

    Swype has gotten insanely bad.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      I'm actually kind of amazed Apple has realized, correctly, that writing things from scratch (with some copy paste, of course) every few years will actually save money / make more money in the long run.

      It's very counterintuitive and a really hard sell given the short-term costs of doing so.

      • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        If you think about it. It forces more phone sales. They basically nuke the old phones to the point they don't really operate. Where as android you got 10 year old smartphones still going. But then you get the problem like my pixle 6 where it's clear that the ios is a giant turd that needs to be burnt down and redone.