(img src) Well, I figure this had to happen sometime. Lord knows my wife absolutely despises the spell checker function, so if she doesn’t like it there’s bound to be a few more that don’t. Scratch that, my wife wanted to kill ME because of the spell checker, not because I did anything, but because […]
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MacNN | Internet petition protests iPhone auto-correction

Sep 17th 2008 by

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Well, I figure this had to happen sometime. Lord knows my wife absolutely despises the spell checker function, so if she doesn’t like it there’s bound to be a few more that don’t. Scratch that, my wife wanted to kill ME because of the spell checker, not because I did anything, but because it was my phone that was giving her such a hard time… come to this about it, I”m off to sign a petition – be back shortly.

“An internet petition has been building to protest Apple’s auto-correction feature on the iPhone, entitled Please Let Us Disable Auto Correction Steve. Many users would at least like the option to switch the feature off. The truncated words, commonly used while writing on mobile devices, are particularly problematic. Frühjahr Design has received nearly 3,000 ‘signatures’ on its petition in the few days since its launch.
The body of the note, addressed to CEO Steve Jobs, suggests that the company should ‘let your developers make a simple switch button to turn autocorrection off…’ Signatures will be acce

pted until September 30 and then sent to Apple.”

(Via MacNN.)

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