> Autocorrect incorrectly assuming the word you want to use replaced that message taking three days to arrive at its destination.
Seems like you don't remember email on your PC.
Or simply sms without autocorrect. OP has a point, but this indeed is a bad example. As far as I can see autocorrect for messaging being wrong didn't replace anything, it's something new which just doesn't always work properly. Which is exactly the point of the article.
I think there's a little more to it than that; I feel like the rise of autocorrect is pretty strongly correlated with the rise of glass keyboards, an intrinsically imprecise input method. I remember being pretty damn precise (and fast), typing blind, while pounding out sms on my Motorola Razr.
Re:Why Nothing Works Anymore
by thinkmassive on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:07PM
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I could type faster using T9 on a 10-key flip phone than I can on an iPhone today. On Android I used SwiftKey for many years and would bet I'm fastest on that, but I decided to try an iPhone 6S and it seems like a huge step back regarding input. I still can't believe they don't have a swype-like input method.
iOS supports third-party keyboards since, like, 8th edition. Exactly what made iPhone acceptable to me.
Not that I'm too happy with it: for some reason my SwiftKey's gesture-recognizing algorithm seems to be getting worse over time, while next-word prediction becomes better.
Re:Why Nothing Works Anymore
by thinkmassive on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:27AM
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Oh wow, that's embarrassing for me, but thank you!
I think it's safe to assume the OP meant being available legally.
Fine, point taken, I amend my example to: seems like the OP doesn't remember actual honest-to-God Red Book CDs, which it was both practical and (in the US) legal to rip (format-shift) for personal use.
Re:Why Nothing Works Anymore
by smacktoward on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:01PM
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Or, you know, physical books, which were a quite successful system for distributing text for literally hundreds of years. And which came not only with the right to make personal copies, but with right of first sale (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine) so you could turn around and sell them to someone else when you grew tired of them.
> Seems like you don't remember Napster either. Where were you in the decade 1995–2005?
The golden age of digital music ended in 2016 with the death of what.cd
Re:Why Nothing Works Anymore
by davidgerard on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:25AM
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What.CD violated the first rule of preserving things on the internet: make lots of copies. https://rocknerd.co.uk/2016/11/19/what-the-death-of-what-cd-...
Seems like you don't remember email on your PC.
> Content wrapped in DRM replaced that content not being available at all.
Seems like you don't remember Napster either. Where were you in the decade 1995–2005?