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QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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But what happens when it's inevitably wrong? How do you type the word you actually meant to type?
You would get a selection of words, like autocorrect now. But if none of those were correct, you could fall back to legacy mode to put in the correct word and next time that word would be weighted so you're more likely to see it.
I mean, I see how this could kind of work... but I still think most people would want to use a regular keyboard. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems needlessly complicated, especially since most people use and are fine with the system we have now.
I think that if you had a new keyboard enabled on every new phone, people would adapt. Unfortunately though, that would never happen.
But if you do see a normal keyboard and can type each letter isn't that the same as what autocorrect is doing now? If I type "spmrthjng" my keyboard already autocorrects to "something". If you only see the keyboard after it's guessed wrong then that would just be autocorrect with more steps.