Mobile device keypads, specifically the iphone's but this applies to any virtual keypad, could reduce typo's due to autocorrect picking the wrong word greatly by shifting the layout of the vowels.
Look at that top line of letters. UIO are all in a row.
Toil/tool, love/live, shout/shoot, shit/shot, fig/fog, pug/pig*, put/pit, you get the idea.
The iPhone's autocorrect and predictive keypad work really well, but they could clearly be improved by adopting a keyboard layout that was designed to keep easily substituted letters apart.
We all know qwerty is an artifact layout, and with the switch to virtual layouts it seams really daft to keep it.
Apple have always been good at forcing changes that people don't want to make that ultimately turn out to be an improvement. This would be a very simple one with ubiquitous and ever present benefits.
Of course, I don't have time to do it so it's up to someone else to fix this, as usual ;)
Seriously, tell someone you butchered the wrong one of those!
I swear by SwiftKey. Language learning and Predictive text implemented alongside a swipe input that actually works.
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