An iPhone’s typing is mostly miserable. I do really like it being super accessible. I can quick scribe a not being anywhere, as the iPhone is always around. Mine is 12 mini, and so I have it on me all the time. Perhaps leaving a gigantic phone behind is an easy fix for the smartphone addiction, but the bigger screen may introduce the worst part of that addiction to fight against.
I do really like the swipe typing, since the early days of Android. And I can hardly recall a Google—
or Microsoft (wow, by the way). Ahh, sorry. No. Not Microsoft. Swiftkey, they bought it, right? Not their achievement then. I stopped using it after it was bought, if I recall it correctly. It was very good, the keyboard. Never failed on me.
I can hardly recall a Google’s keyboard being that stupid. GBoard was very good. But invasive, privacy wise.
I’m not sure Apple’s built-in keyboard is not invasive. I keep it because it’s not possible to remove it entirely, and so keeping two keyboards is against my values. So is keeping anything Google. So is using Android. So is using anything Microsoft.
Not that I’m against anything proprietary. I’m against anything mediocre in the first place. I do prefer open source any day, that’s true. And it’s a curious development open source software became much better than its proprietary counterparts.
But Apple’s keyboard… it feels not that bad, but then I reread the text I wrote late at night, and there are no misprints. None. Only the entire words are different. And here I am, making the suggestions what would those words be, reading my own blog and asking myself ‘what did you mean, man?!’
Keep that in mind, while reading my blog. If I spot the offended word, I’d return it to what it was meant to be. But I’m not casually eating my old posts all the time.
You see? Eating. Reading. Reading! Reading.
Duck.
Fuck. F.