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why would you develop such dependency on a proprietary piece of code? > I'd even say, perhaps it's best not to tell people that their problems aren't problems to begin with. I'm not saying one should care, it'd be enough just not to explicitly dismiss on their face. generally speaking, the opposite is true - people need to take some accountability for their problems, thanks to the disintegration of conversation peopl…
The open source keyboard space on Android is weirdly incredibly deficient No way to type Chinese with an open source keyboard. And no way to do local speak-to-text (even English) with an open source keyboard
phones aren't great for input, and perhaps won't be in the foreseeable future, but using proprietary closed keyboards with no roughly-equivalent alternatives just compounds the problem
every time I want to type something substantial, in any language, I wait until I have access to a computer; it's particularly bad in Japanese and Chinese in my experience, but it's not great in any language - in Asian languages you'd get good over time with some specific system (say 4-corners, zhuyin, kana/conv, and specific predictive dictionaries) and then have support end, so why even bother?