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iOS Keyboard Maker SwiftKey Acquired by Microsoft for $250M
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Cuts off nose to spite face.
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Actually it's brilliant.
More so than new watch straps and stands.
http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/microsoft-to-buy-swiftkey/
What a stupid post. Microsoft has bar none the greatest keyboard on Windows Phone. Better than anything Apple or Google has put on their phones. It's Swype, but enhanced by MS. Compared to Swype on iOS, it's night and day better on Windows phone.
The existing Windows Phone keyboard is better than SwiftKey, so either this is a competition-reducing move or a userbase acquisition move or.. Oh wait, nothing Microsoft is doing these days around mobile makes any sense, so why should this either?
Just because we don't hear about them doesn't mean Apple isn't acquiring interesting companies. On average they snap up a handful every year, most of which never get a mention in the press.
Have you used Accompli since it's been rebranded as outlook? Microsoft has been doing good things with Satya in charge
It seems like a good acquisition for Microsoft.
But stay away from any keyboard that asks for FULL ACCESS.
You can use Swype without giving full access. If you need another language, ENABLE FULL ACCESS, download the languages you want and DISABLE FULL ACCESS after. It's in Swype's Website manual
But stay away from any keyboard that asks for FULL ACCESS.
You can use Swype without giving full access. If you need another language, ENABLE FULL ACCESS, download the languages you want and DISABLE FULL ACCESS after. It's in Swype's Website manual
Nope. Beats has been a smart acquisition, and will pay itself back in just a few years, unlike Swiftkey.... or Whatsapp.
I have used it for a while, but correction got worse and worse. And now with the 6S I like the 3D-Touch-Trackpad-function, which only works with Apple's
keyboard.
Now I'm glad I ditched SwiftKey, there's no way I would have sent MS all my input, which is a prerequisite for the swipe function.
keyboard.
Now I'm glad I ditched SwiftKey, there's no way I would have sent MS all my input, which is a prerequisite for the swipe function.
In my experience, it will have to go downhill for a good while before it even reaches Swype's bugginess and dumbness.
I uninstalled it a year and a half ago. The second I found out that they track what you type.
Trying to figure out why Apple didn't buy SwiftKey to improve their own keyboard.
odd purchase given that MS already had a speed typing keyboard, which was pretty good, in fact I liked it better then swiftkey. Plus the way the windows phones are sliding into oblivion, it doesn't make sense.
Right??!! Same thing!! =D
Oh, no... wait: one is a very highly profitable company, putting form over function & creating a physical object and overcharging for it... while the other makes a piece of add-on software in a field where the product has only recently evolved from free to 99¢.
I get that you're eager to bash Beats (I hate them too), but I've always found that a point to is better made, when it actually makes sense.
Good match... With Windows 10 under the gun for tracking everything, Swiftkey has always reserved the right to keep a copy of everything the user types. 
That's probably why Microsoft bought them, they seem to be really going the google way of doing things these days. Windows 10 is actually a pretty good OS it's just been tarred with Microsoft's total inability to communicate, and do things above board.Good match... With Windows 10 under the gun for tracking everything, Swiftkey has always reserved the right to keep a copy of everything the user types.
MS wants the prediction engine. While wordflow is great on Windows Phone 10, SwiftKey's prediction engine is better.
They "track" (I use track loosely) what you type to improve next word prediction. SwiftKey (and any other predictive text engine) build a word library based on your usage patterns.
They all start off with a base library and then improve on it based on your usage patterns.
They "track" (I use track loosely) what you type to improve next word prediction. SwiftKey (and any other predictive text engine) build a word library based on your usage patterns.
They all start off with a base library and then improve on it based on your usage patterns.
I've just bought a 2 in 1 (Surface clone) and use the on-screen keyboard a lot. Any improvement in predictive type is always welcome. With Cortana built in to the OS I'm finding I'm using it for a lot of things. If it can better predict my usual queries then brilliant. The handwriting recognition for entry using the stylus is pretty good now but it would definitely benefit from better prediction.
Swiftkey would presumably work for touch devices of all sizes, not just phones. I hope this isn't limited to just MS branded products, and makes it into anything running Windows 10.
Incredible app for bilingual users. But for users who seldom switch languages such as I, there are a couple of other choices, including my favourite, Typany.