Comments on Profile Post by rlow

And autocorrect is getting dumber.

What gets me about autocorrect (Google keyboard) is its absolute inability to learn. I thought this one was solved years ago, by the company who invented the whole swype thing. They had intelligent learning too.

Yes! When these keyboards first started out they were pretty good at learning and remembering words I used and/or misspelled frequently, and correcting them properly. Now my iPhone won’t even let me spell my last name without autocorrecting it wrong every time!!

My guess is the whole software patent thing intervened. Google (and who knows who else) were asked to cough up 2 trillion dollars by some fool who patented the idea of keyboard/swipe autocorrect learning but had no idea how to implement it, let alone turn it into a real product.

Same, man. I’m the worst at phone typing.

crenca, it was a real product, and a very popular Android keyboard. I think the company sold itself to some big name who wanted the technology. Maybe they weren't interested in the keyboard application. So it was lost to us.

Would have thought google, at least, would have the resources to crack this?

forget typing use voice to text, perfection :)

SwiftKey was great, I remember it being the second app I ever paid actual money for ages ago (after PowerAmp, haha). Much as I've resigned to selling Google my soul I use a fair bit of Samsung software since I have a fair bit more luck with their keyboard, not to mention the Microsoft integration is handy for work etc.

Remembering, with a bit of help from the internet. There was Swype, and then there was Swiftkey. I just installed Swiftkey to see if it improves things. If I can just get something that doesn't put 'rust' EVERY time i type 'that.'

I had to turn off AC a long time ago. I spend more time correcting it than myself.

Really miss tactile buttons. I'm used to hands on stuff - that a phone makes me stop and look at it to use it is an insult. 20 years ago that would've been thought inconvenient.

When I finally switched from the Goog to the Apple (just in December) I noticed that the fruit's swiping is better.

After a couple of days of using Swiftkey, rather than default-supplied Google, I think I'll stick with it. Pros and cons to both, It's worth trying for each to make their own choice.

I have Swiftkey on my Android phone and I use Apple’s default on my Apple phone. I think both are better than average at going back and forth between swiping vs pecking, which I tend to do. Swype does not do well when I go back to pecking.