> My experience sounds much the same, yes. I suppose your friend also touch-types? I find it very difficult to look at my fingers instead of the text while I'm trying to write - it's so distracting! - but of course that makes it tougher to hit the simulated keys I mean to press. I suspect that people who never learned to type properly might have an easier time of it.
We are both touch typists, I actually don't know how I would type on a phone keyboard quickly while looking at the letters. I don't, I look at the words to see if they correct the way I want them to.
> I never use autocorrect or any sort of typing-assistance features, on the phone or anywhere else.
Yeah, that pretty much makes touchscreen keyboards useless. It is a fundamental part of their design IMO. Like trying to use a stand mixer to make bread but cranking it manually instead of using the motor because you can't feel the dough.
> Yeah, that pretty much makes touchscreen keyboards useless. It is a fundamental part of their design IMO.
If it’s a fundamental part of their design, then why does it suck so hard?
80/20 problem. You are in the 20 and they don't care.
Interesting that you also touch-type, but it doesn't bother you that you can't know whether you're hitting the keys you're aiming for. I wonder what that would feel like.
Autocorrect/complete features may well be a fundamental part of the intended usage, but they make the experience substantially worse for me. It takes less work and causes less frustration to simply fix my typos than it would to battle with an obstreperous moron robot which thinks it knows what I am trying to say better than I do.