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The only times I get a lot of errors are if I'm in bed, so lying on my side, or if I'm on the train and things are really jostly. But the program has a learning curve - your first twenty minutes playing with it it can't really anticipate you.
Oh! Having the iPad means I finally get how people keep getting those freaky autocorrects. On the android platform, autocorrect is opt-in - if it thinks you made it mistake it suggests what it thinks is right, but you have to choose to use it. I find it a pain in the ass to adapt to the opt-out that iPhone/iPad uses.
On the android platform, autocorrect is opt-in
That's not globally true. On the Swype for Honeycomb, for instance, it's opt out. However, I found it much more obvious about how to opt out than on the iPod, where I was actually picking the correction the first few times.
brenda, you can click the x when it autocorrects to reject the correction.
I figured that out, but it's kind of a pain since it means I need to be checking the screen all the time while i'm typing.
My version of the android keyboard is definitely opt-out. I get the same autocorrect problems I had with my iPhone, though at least I also get multiple autocorrect options shown, on the rare occasions I'm paying enough attention to choose one.
I haven't compared it to Android, but iOS seems to learn pretty quickly which "typos" are actually words I want to spell (names and curses mostly), so I find the autocorrect mostly helpful. (Until it's not, of course. My phone seems smarter in that regard than my iPad, but maybe that's just because I've been using it longer.)
Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of autocorrect in general on both platforms. It definitely helps more than it hurts - it's just when it corrects something you typed right and you have to redo, it's annoying.
Eh, sometimes it's just stupid though. Out of nowhere (I can ASSURE you I do not type "A's" on purpose ever), the iphone started changing all of my "as" to "A's". Deeply annoying. The same with the word "the"? It ALWAYS tries to change it to "THr" or something ridiculous.
I mostly appreciate the autocorrect, as I'm sure I type on the phone much more poorly than I think I do. However, it always wants to change "noe" to "Noe" rather than "now". Which irks. Or is possibly a sign I should move to SF and talk about Noe Valley more often?
Or that Dan Quayle was involved with the programming?
