If Apple just fixed the keyboard response on iOS7, it would be able to keep up with fast typing like iOS6 could. It's forever joining words together when I type exactly as fast as I used to with iOS6 and it's not some kind of, "using the keyboard wrong" thing, it's a poor response time on an OS level since iOS7.
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New iOS Swiping Keyboard Capable of 120WPM Speeds
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Well, then don't use it. Swype or Swiftkey are pretty nice on android, many people just prefer swiping over typing.
I'm an Android user and I'm excited about this!
Apple won't incorporate this into anything.
The most likely outcome will be:
1. They will release this for Android.
2. Google will just rip it off.
In any case, I'm waiting for it!
Everything we use today is copied from or inspired by something else invented before that. i'm surprised people still have to point it out or see it as something bad.
past rumors said that Swype will be coming to iPhone, no news about that ?
is it legally bound to Android ?
is it legally bound to Android ?
120 wpm!!!
the video looks like it's been speeded up and at places slowed back down. you can tell by the jitters of the phones movement
the video looks like it's been speeded up and at places slowed back down. you can tell by the jitters of the phones movement
SwiftKey is the only reason why I regularly switch to Android. (I always went back to iOS for other reasons but I really miss SwiftKey).
It's not only the missing swipe feature that's bad about Apple's keyboard. The other reason I really prefer SwiftKey is that it supports multiple languages at the same time. On iOS you always have to press that silly button to switch between languages (or smilies), SwiftKey automatically recognizes the language you are typing in. Also the autocompletion is SO much better than on iOS.
On Android with SwiftKey I'm able to type blind (almost). On iOS I even make typos when looking at the keyboard.
I think the reason why Apple hasn't included a better keyboard yet is the size of the iPhone's screen. On Android those keyboards also only work well with a big enough screen to display autocorrection suggestions etc.. Because of this I think the rumors of a bigger screen iPhone may come true and iOS 8 may finally give us a better keyboard.
It's not only the missing swipe feature that's bad about Apple's keyboard. The other reason I really prefer SwiftKey is that it supports multiple languages at the same time. On iOS you always have to press that silly button to switch between languages (or smilies), SwiftKey automatically recognizes the language you are typing in. Also the autocompletion is SO much better than on iOS.
On Android with SwiftKey I'm able to type blind (almost). On iOS I even make typos when looking at the keyboard.
I think the reason why Apple hasn't included a better keyboard yet is the size of the iPhone's screen. On Android those keyboards also only work well with a big enough screen to display autocorrection suggestions etc.. Because of this I think the rumors of a bigger screen iPhone may come true and iOS 8 may finally give us a better keyboard.
You have obviously never really used SwiftKey. Give it a week of training and it will adapt to your writing style perfectly. Even if there is an error it gives you three autocomplete suggestions to fix it.
Ditto. But Apple are being oddly pig-headed about letting devs create keyboards for iOS. Such a shame and one of the reasons I can't come back to iOS.
"While many iOS users would like to have the option to install keyboards like Swype, or Hipjot's own dual-swipe invention, Apple has yet to budge on the matter."
Its a square sensor, no reason Apple couldn't offer a 'horizontal only' record option. With retina, it could even offer a horizontal preview.
There's really nothing "oddly pig-headed" about not allowing 3rd party system level apps to run on iOS. Can you really not see why? Part of iOS's security and stability is because it doesn't allow 3rd party drivers or system level "mods" to be downloaded and installed- sure Apple themselves can come with some nasty bugs from time to time, but you'll never see someone running Safari that's been taken over by 9 different toolbars or constantly grinding the disk to a halt loading adware. And you won't have people installing a 3rd party keyboard that logs and sends everything that's typed to some crafty criminal's server.
I do think Apple needs to do something here, but I doubt it will be simply opening up the app store to random 3rd party keyboards. Either Apple themselves should simply purchase/license another keyboard option, or they should make a highly curated program for incorporating them, like the MFI program for 3rd party hardware.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, I don't think anyone's had the interest to even bother to make a toolbar for Android browsers.
I had swype on all my Androids and loved it. Keyboard pecking is so slow and many typos are to be made using this archaic method of input. I seriously think iOS has the worst default keyboard I've seen and Apple forces you to use it no questions asked. The swiping gestures became so popular on Android that Google even implemented it to their keyboard, Samsung too. I would love to see it on iOS and am highly disappointed it hasn't been done yet. Honestly, I would have thought by iOS 4 we'd have swipe capability on the keyboard, it's so damn fun and really speeds up the process. It is one of the few things Android beats Apple in imo.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, I don't think anyone's had the interest to even bother to make a toolbar for Android browsers.
Was just an example
To show iOS as being the complete opposite of something like desktop Windows in that sense. Apple clearly values security and stability over functionality- which isn't the only way to do things, but it's certainly a valid one. It's certainly much easier to install a keyloggers (or all sorts of malware) when you allow 3rd party functions at the level of a keyboard- that present themselves inside of nearly every app.
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Had I known the reason, I wouldn't have made the comment I did.
I've been with Android for a few years now and thoroughly enjoy Swype and, as far as I'm aware, have never had any security issues. I can't believe that there isn't a way to keep iOS secure but allow a 3rd party keyboard.
What I meant was, can you not see why Apple wouldn't do this with iOS, considering how the rest of the system is managed (no 3rd party drivers, highly curated 3rd party hardware, curated app store). Lots of people don't have malware issues with their Windows PCs either, but yet it exists and affects a lot of people. There have been trojan third party Android keyboards (it's a pretty obvious place to hide malware, no? You don't even have to launch a particular app, you've just installed a system wide "app" that appears almost everywhere the user goes).
Apple is trying to avoid this situation with iOS. That doesn't mean they couldn't look at including some other 3rd party keyboard options, like licensing Swype or this hybrid method- that would probably be the best compromise from their standpoint.
Mmm...
Gotta say I'm a big fan of jailbreaking and that's my exact experience. Fewer and fewer apps are on Cydia nowadays. It's mainly cr@99y themes and useless utilities.
We are close to that stage where iOS' functionality/apps provide most of what people want. Not everything yet though
The only thing I jailbreak for now is to get TetherMe which seems to fool my provider's tethering block, saving £5 a month.
Finally!
Now my one finger, 5 wpm so-called typing will go so much better!
<----Please note for those unclear on the ironic intent of the post.
Was just an example
As someone who just learned about all the places that Conduit malware manages to stick itself, I completely agree (toolbars in all browsers, browser home page hijacking in both the usual places and appended to the end of browser shortcuts["C:\Program Files\Google\Google Chrome.exe" http://whatevertheconduitwebsitewas.com"], running at startup, dozens of registry entries, inside other programs, and so on...). After being without Windows for 3 years I had somehow gathered that security had improved to the point where this stuff was only a minor annoyance unless you had something bad.
That being said, while I'm amazed that Android doesn't have much in the way of malware for it (probably more comparable to OS X), I didn't find security to be much of an issue, mostly I just hate using it.
Really, I broke the OS more times than anything I could have installed...but that was really my fault anyways.
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