The density of errors with smartphone keyboards is much higher. I've done this before when my phone's autocorrect seemed to be exceedingly buggy, but it's not a smooth experience at all.
If I decide to write messages 1m away from my keyboard using a golf club, the onus is on me to not produce gibberish; I can't suddenly cry that that the computer failed to magically / psychically produce the actual intended text without any extra effort on my part to correct the keystrokes I mashed by accident.
I'm the one with the eyeballs and intent, simple as that.
> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Yeah, but you can complain that it kinda sucks as an experience. Autocorrect is generally speaking the better option, and it generally just means a different kind of error is more prevalent.
(you seem to be arguing that autocorrect is somehow an option that means that you don't pay attention to what you're typing. This is an orthogonal issue, and you can be lazy and error-ridden with and without autocorrect)
