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alterom | 6 days ago

>People riding horse buggies probably thought the same when powered vehicles first came about, and look at the world now. You won't know unless you give it a honest try.

This is a ridiculous non-analogy.

I'm flying a jet airplane, and you're telling me to give Ford Model T a try because you don't understand flight as a concept.

Or, in this case, Flow typing.

From Keybee's website:

>Some syllables and some words can be inserted through a simple combination of tap & swipe (we call it twipe) greatly reducing the number of touches for typing a text. For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys. Keybee Keyboard is swipe friendly.

I am typing an entire word with one "twipe" on GBoard.

Each word.

I'm done with touchscreen input methods that require me to think about tapping letters. I don't think in individual characters, and I don't type in them either.

Let me know if I can make it any clearer.

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viraptor|6 days ago

Also gboard is the best keyboard for that. Nothing else implements a prediction model over a number of words as far as I can tell. Or if they do, they fail really badly at it.

alterom|6 days ago

Swipe keyboard on Microsoft Lumias was better.

I think Android is only catching up to it in the past 2-3 years.

Sadly, Lumias went the way of the dodo, and I don't have a need for that sort of input on something that's not a phone.

Whatever Microsoft put out as a keyboard app for Android is different, they didn't implement the same UX.

Out of the swipe keyboards I tried for Android, GBoard worked the best.