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how is smart compose useful? maybe if you never learned how to touch type. or if you want to sound like the most generic person possible.

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It's useful because it saves me time and effort when writing emails.

I know how to touch type.

Most of my email responses are pretty generic, I'm not writing any haikus. Should I be?

i just find it awful and distracting. i have to consider what google is suggesting and whether i agree with the tonality and relevance rather than freely expressing what i want to say.

I write lots of emails in english and I'm not a native english speaker. Having a smart email completion thing saves me lots of time. US is not the center of the universe

It helps give Google an excuse to comb through all of your personal emails and put the data into a machine learning model.

They already have excuses for that, but this one justifies a bit more.

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