My favorite was "Google’s keyboard app routinely eats 150 MB. Is an app that draws 30 keys on a screen really five times more complex than the whole Windows 95? "
I mean... considering the fact that in contains the probabilities of typing every single word in the English language versus every other, at every stage of typing, including potentially the probabilities of all the ways you might mistype each word while swiping without precise accuracy...
...maybe?
I don't know if that's 150 MB' worth of data... but it's certainly a lot.
So why is it persistently, perniciously and stubbornly insistent in refusing to spell 'naughty' words like 'duck'?
What's the problem again? I just typed "duck" by swiping. If you mean the "i" variant, be informed that swear words are blocked unless a preference is set.
They mean the "f" variant.
Probably because it contains extra data about which words are "naughty".
I'm sure that's intentional...
I think you can disable it?
This in particular is a terrible example. Gboard is full of good features that Windows 95 did not have. Features that require a way deeper understanding of natural language than existed on computers in 1995. Autocorrect, voice typing, swipe typing, handwriting input, translation. It's so far from "30 keys on a screen" that it's not even funny.
I agree in spirit but really most of this is is going to be related to unpacking images of more than 2 colors on a high density display.