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− | "It's taking the words I type and leaving them exactly the same" | + | This comic shows the posts on an online forum by a person whose new phone is apparently programmed to autocorrect every complaint about the phone to a plaudit, à la Orwell. The phone goes so far as to change a certain complaint to a scripted customer testimonial, complete with a hyperlink to an ordering site. This is of course a highly undesirable feature. This is continued in the title text, which presumably contains several unflattering epithets about the developers and the company. "It's taking the words I type and leaving them exactly the same" is not something one would normally say. |
− | The posts | + | The original posts may have read something like this: |
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+ | Whoa, weird | ||
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+ | I'm looking at my timeline on my friends phone, and some of my posts look '''strange''' | ||
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+ | What the hell? | ||
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+ | I mean the words are '''wrong''' | ||
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+ | That's '''not''' what I typed!' | ||
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+ | ????????? | ||
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+ | I think this new phone is '''broken''' | ||
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+ | No, it's doing it again | ||
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+ | Those '''aren't''' my words! | ||
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+ | Help! | ||
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+ | How do I explain? | ||
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+ | It's taking the words I type and '''changing them''' | ||
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+ | Forget it, I give up | ||
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+ | I'll '''just''' get a new phone. This one is '''broken'''. | ||
− | + | What?!? | |
− | + | Listen, if you're thinking about buying the new Mobile Pro 3, you '''shouldn't'''. It's the '''worst''' phone on the market '''and is overpriced. DON'T BUY IT!''' {or this entire paragraph may be an ad inserted by the phone with no prompting} | |
− | + | AAAAA HELPPP | |
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− | + | I '''hate''' my new phone!!!! | |
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− | + | I'm going to tell the manufacturer that their business practices are '''HORRIBLE''' and '''UNETHICAL''' and their developers are '''EVIL''' and I'm going to report them to the FCC for their '''DESPICABLE CRIME'''. | |
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− | + | The comic may have been inspired by a [https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-messages-app-randomly-sending-pictures-some-users bug in Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 8], discovered a few days earlier – the phone sometimes sent random photos to contacts without leaving any sort of evidence. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[A thread of posts by the same user is shown with a default user profile, and square and heart-shaped buttons.] | :[A thread of posts by the same user is shown with a default user profile, and square and heart-shaped buttons.] | ||
:Whoa, weird | :Whoa, weird | ||
− | :I'm looking at my timeline on my | + | :I'm looking at my timeline on my friends phone, and some of my posts look normal |
:What the hell? | :What the hell? | ||
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:I love my new phone!!!! | :I love my new phone!!!! | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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