PS: iOS just did this twice while typing this reply.

Edit: I also bought all of my iOS devices in Hong Kong so, there's that.

Most other devices I bought elsewhere, except for those I was dead sure I’m going to keep. As far as I can tell HK is the only place in the world where Apple retail has a no returns policy.

Yeah, we can thank the x-border gray market for that. In the beginning it was...flexible, in that if you obviously weren’t a smuggler they’d quietly accept the return, but I haven’t needed to test that in a while.

Sync works completely randomly on mac between the iPhone and and OSX, - you often have to wait "a long time", and since Apple also has the completely idiotic concept of "everything has to be magic" you never get an estimate, or an error message, or a progress bar, so like everything on a mac, you have to just fiddle, disconnect, reconnect, wait, and just hope and pray that things will work out.

And then we haven't even touched on the their productivity apps like Numbers and Pages which for a long time had features in the templates which weren't available in new documents, so you had to start from a template, completely insane.

Still use Mac and like it for the most part compared at least to Windows which can't even get search right without showing randoms ads and internet results to you - another pretty crazy thing to push to production for a billion people.

It's just pathetic nonsense to congratulate anyone on this level of nonsense.

It resets the entire thing though.

Companies should really just grow the fuck up and stop doing stupid, cutsey things like pretending adults really just typo a reference to a bird regularly.

I would leave iOS solely for this reason if it were not for the fact that Google are as bad.

The T9 input system is better.

Yes, but if it's not even possible to get auto-rotate to function correctly most of the time (to the point it becomes funny, countless are the times I've seen people yell at their device because either it doesn't rotate when wanted or rotates when not wanted), how do you expect something way more complicated to function appropriately? Only partially kidding here; this isn't criticism of the fact autocorrect doesn't work as good as it should, it's just that it's really hard to solve, but the point of failure imo is that there are other ways not involving AI or ML which might, as long as the former doesn't work better, actually be better suited and lead to results faster. E.g. something as simple as just adding anything ever typed to the dictionary and sort by number of usages - eventually getting rid of items with only one usage ever assuming they were typos or so. Which is roughly how phones used to do it pre-full-keyboard-era, I assume, and at least for me that actually worked pretty well and definitely with less mistakes. Maybe not as fast though. But I'm personally not interested in trading correctness for speed.

-swipe down the settings panel

-unlock rotation

-reorient device

-swipe up the settings panel

-let it reorient

-swipe down the settings panel

-lock rotation

I NEVER want to rotate the home page. NEVER

As for specific errors, does rock capitalize when "the" is before it? (The Rock) The models learn from how users write. But when you think about it, it is actually fairly difficult to predict what words are going to be, you can test it with your friends. Have them create a sentence and feed you one word at a time. The better you know the person the better you'll do, but I'm guessing you still won't be that good.

And no, I don’t often discuss The Rock, but if I did (“Do you smell what the r...”) I'd expect it to finish the alley-oop. I do not want to go Rock climbing.

iMessage is software that is used <Carl Sagan voice> billions and billions of times a day, and half the time it feels like verbal jiu-jitsu (“jiu-hursuit” according to autocorrect just now) with Dory the fish.

> if the word is in the dictionary, then don’t change it

Actually the thing that bugs me the most is that when there's a word that is in the dictionary that's long and complex and it doesn't suggest it, even when I have the right word. It just isn't underlined red. Or a one off error with these words and it has no idea what I'm trying to spell.

They have a long way to go. These systems aren't just ML btw.

On a day to day basis I do use 4 different languages, sometimes even mixing them in a single conversation (i.e the other person is bi/trilingual too). For me the autocorrection is only a distant dream and will probably remain so for a long time.

Human language is actually just one vast system, it isn't best understood as a bunch of nicely compartmentalized independent languages. So in a way it would actually be more wrong for an AI model to insist that "Beacoup money" isn't a reasonable thing for the user to want to write, just because those two vocabulary words don't co-exist in a single defined language. The user may or may not know that, but they certainly don't care.

It looks like it uses all the dictionaries so suggestions appear from all languages for every word you're typing.

Sure, some people would say “I went to Menlo for lunch today”, but it should always have the option of “Park” (which when I type it, it always knows to capitalize).

Just an aside: Although common perception is that "weapons-grade" refers to the highest quality, in reality it refers to the lowest-possible quality that meets the bare minimum requirements!

You might as well refer to the bronze medal as “just barely enough to be in the awards ceremony”. Is that supposed to be clever somehow?

I thought the parent comment was mildly interesting. There's no need to be so combative.

FWIW, your comment above (about standards) was also mildly interesting to me. I hadn't really given the phrase much thought.

There was no need to be rude about it though.

However, SwiftKey might be more conservative and feels a bit slower at times, but its autocorrect and prediction do a really good and consistent job.

For example if I type "this is not the" it suggests the next word might be "case".

Plus, I feel like my ability to type things correctly might suffer from crutches like this.

The same goes for voice recognition, when it tries to squeeze a specific name into a set of common words. It's just bizarre. In the past, when I tried the Google voice assistant or Siri, I always had to bring my best american accent (almost comical), otherwise they would often not understand.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collab...

I'm not sure I believe that.

So, what would make you believe it?

I have no idea what is going on, but the answer is installing SwiftKey

Fwiw Swiftkey was a paid app a few years ago. Then they became free. How do they still earn money to keep the company running ?

(I always had an Android phone but I assume it's also free on iOS)

I have rather petite hands and fingers, I should note.

I think you found the problem