Apple → Re: [rant]I'm starting to really hate iOS keyboard

i don't find typing is that bad on it (iPhone5 and iPad)...it too has predictive text (hence the autocorrect funnies) so as long as you watch what you are typing, you should be able to catch things easily...for longer messages, why not simply use the voice to text feature (the little mic beside the space button)?...that feature works great and you don't need to type a thing.

Never used it, but I believe predictive typing is different from autorcorrect.
Predictive typing guesses that if you type Please shut the do.. (I believe) the predictive typing will suggest door.
Apple's autocorrect suggests crazy words that bear no semblance to the flow of the sentence.
I typed Doo and it suggested Foo (is that even a word?).
I typed Please shut the doot and autocorrect suggested foot. The D is next to the F and the R is next to the T, so it's a 50/50 guess that I meant DOOR or FOOT (if I missed the correct key by typing the adjacent key). A predictive would guess DOOR, based on the context. A random guess based on flipping a coin would suggest FOOT.
BTW, how do you shut a foot?

There is a difference between the two. On my Android, for reasonably simple sentences, I can often get away without typing ANY words except maybe the first one. It will show (3) words as it's prediction and does a damn good job ! I showed my wife and she thinks it "scary".

Auto-correct does like you say, by looking at nearby letters when a word is misspelled.