Comments on: iPhone not sweet on 'neat'
Sometimes technology goes a little too far; the iPhone's character prediction software offers a fine example of that.
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It's also a pain to try to click that tiny X when it "predicts" a word for you. I've tried to cancel Apple's spelling correction on the fly a number of times, and the vast majority of that time I seem to be missing the X, which makes the iPod replace the word as it normally does. Meaning I have to start all over.
Backspace OR predictive text. Pick one! I'm more than comfortable with my Katana's T9 predictive text, but if they put a dedicated backspace button on the keyboard I'm much more likely to use it instead of predictive.
OpenOffice uses predictive text as I type, and it is even more annoying than Microsoft Word's AutoCorrect feature. But that is another matter?
As for cell phone operation, I had cell phones that used the T9 interface. I can't count the number of times I've typed "I'm good" and I meant to say "I'm home." With T9, the default word for 4663 is "good" and not "home".
I'm still waiting on IBM to develop thought recognition software which would know to type "neat" when you mean "neat," and to not launch an application when you click on the icon next to the one you really wanted to open instead.
I typed it 5 times on my First GEN iPod Touch (jailbroken 2.2) into mail and it worked fine? Apparently the keys resize depending on how much you use them. Maybe its because a lot of people don't use the letter 'T'?
I dunno. You can see a lot of other people here reproduced the problem. I wonder if something in the jailbreaking process disables this feature? Can't imagine how or why, though.
Trying to type 'neat' always results in 'nea' without the ability to type 't'.
I've also noticed I have the same behavior when trying to type my friend's name with possessive-s:
' Alex' ' will then only allow me to type 'r' and not 's' until after I backspace.
"neay " becomes "neat" because the "y" is so close to the "t"
Me, I can't tell the difference between the iPhone's misspellings and my own.
But seriously, folks, if we can prevent just ONE other consumer product from making the same mistake in its predictive typing code, it'll all be worth it.
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Any interest on making bad publicity on Apple?
Of course I don't have any interest in bad publicity for Apple. Shame on you for even asking.
- by Hellcat May 20, 2009 4:53 PM PDT
- Wow someone who actually seems to understand the way I think about Apple. "we'll do what WE think the people want and tell them its the best and they'll believe it" Seems to work for them, but then again I don't have a mac or iphone and neither do any of my friends.
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- by montex66 May 27, 2009 7:33 PM PDT
- That is the saddest thing I've heard all day. No Mac? No iPhone? I weep for you.
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