I still have not seen anything like this on anything I use. Gmail recommends absolutely nothing when I try to type. My keyboard recommends things, but I pretty much never look up there.
That said, I am using the Gmail app on an Amazon Fire with the original OS. Or on my computers, I guess. But they don’t predict anything.
Predictive text is not useful, because I’ll have already typed out what I want to say before I notice the prediction, anyways.
That’s no big deal. Tribbles and friends are a standard option for day beds. I suppose woodpeckers are kind of rare, but that’s because of the sharp beak.
What really drove it home for me was when I had an appointment for something or another, and my phone helpfully reminded me to “Leave in five minutes to get to <place> by <time>”. The travel time it gave for me was assuming bicycle speeds. I’m not sure if it was the fact that I look up bike directions more often than driving directions, or that my phone in my pocket often moves around at bicycle speeds, but one way or another, Google knows that my bicycle is my primary mode of transportation.
Unlike some, though, I don’t find it creepy. I’ve long (as in, since before smartphones even existed) hoped for a personal electronic device that would function like a smart and attentive personal assistant or receptionist, and Google is getting pretty close to that. If you were a big-shot boss-type who had made some appointment across town, and your secretary popped a head into your office to remind you about it, and you’d better leave soon to get there, and make sure to bring your umbrella because it’s likely to rain, you wouldn’t find it creepy. You’d think that your secretary was doing a good job. Well, I can’t afford a human personal secretary, but I can afford a smartphone.
OOTH, you’d fire the secretary if you found out she was selling your info to your competitors or other folks who hope to take advantage of you.
IOW, I too wouldn’t mind having a loyal assistant. I do dislike having a spy in my life.
I wonder what a service like Google would have to charge me directly for it to be revenue neutral for them to treat my every interaction as utterly anonymous and untracked, and to record nothing that I do nor correlate or share anything anywhere anytime with anyone?
I also wonder how many people would buy it if they offered it at that price? For sake of argument assume the interested public viewed it as a trustworthy offering.