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!
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.