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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Another advantage of T9 is that alternative words were offered in a consistent order, so the most common ones could easily be memorized along with the number of button taps needed to get there. This allowed me to reliably write messages without looking at the screen at all.