News - Swype gesture keyboard may be on its way to Apple's iOS

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Meanwhile it has finally come out of beta testing on Android.

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It already works fine on Swiftkey... bit late to market perhaps? Surely as well, if they're going to start selling on iOS, the store will equally be open for all of the established android players?

Fastest Time to Type a Text Message? nope. Way too laggy of an app in my experience, even with an S3. Swiftkey is much much more responsive.

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Originally Posted by snootyjim

It already works fine on Swiftkey... bit late to market perhaps? Surely as well, if they're going to start selling on iOS, the store will equally be open for all of the established android players?

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Hmm, wasn't the keyboard on the Galaxy S3 admitted to be a licensed copy of Swype? In which case if Swype does make it into iOS as the official keyboard then there's a example of Apple copying Samsung. :p

That said, I'm tempted to try "real" Swype because post-update my Samsung badged version seems to have developed an interesting line in predictions - picking some very strange alternatives to what I thought would be common words - at one point last week it seemed to have developed a fixation on "avatar" which seemed to pop up (wrongly) in most of my messages. :(

@Crossy - Try swiftkey - Its a lot better my experience and is regularly on offer. Its prediction engine is pretty good - often saving me typing any words at all. I think its on sale now too - if not it usually goes on offer once every few months.

I already had swiftkey on my devices, after a few days of trying out Swype I went back to Swiftkey, I just find it much easier and quicker to use and I like the predictive words coming up as I swipe and I don't have to switch language keyboards to get multiple language suggestions.