I can’t validate our use of them, but I can at least commiserate. Heliboard was so much slower it wasn’t even funny. SwiftKey just knows what I’m trying to say and I can type as lazily as I want. Heliboard had to be nearly perfect to even have a chance of autocorrecting correctly.
Google Maps too, I’m not ready to give it up.
Lookie here boys, we gots ourselves a tough guy. Hey, Rico, why don’t you show our friend what happens to tough guys round here. Maybe a little swim with the fishies will show him we ain’t so bad after all.
This take is short-sighted. This same comment could be copy-pasted to 20 years ago when the first 1TB HDD was released. Of course it was stupid expensive. But now you would hardly glance at an HDD under 1TB. Technological progress is fast, and benefits consumers.
Messaging apps generally. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, you name it. I’d love to move to something like Signal or I’d even do Telegram, or in a perfect world, host my own server storing the messages/media. But the broader population just wants the path of least resistance, so now I have like 5 apps on my phone and all of them are varying degrees of compromised.