It’s interesting to
me—as a product manager & a, you know, human—how software “features” are
often not actually “benefits”.
Take autocorrect for
example. I’ve shared my bemusement
with that feature before, especially since it’s incorporated into MS Word’s
spell checker.
(Think on that for a
mo—software engineers determining what people who write for a living should
have by way of a dictionary.)
You know—the helpful
little electronic toerag that claims you’ve entered something non-existent
(like Aeneid), or else it just
quietly changes what you’ve written to something else without asking your
permission.
So of course you find
memes like this popping up around the interwebs:
Autocorrect shows up
in SMS software, too. The other morning it changed “Saturday” to “A Stuttgart”
in a text I was sending.
I have no mother-forklift
idea why.
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