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New iOS Swiping Keyboard Capable of 120WPM Speeds

Something like this is truly needed! The standard Ios keyboard sucks so bad.

It's frustrating that every time I type m it deletes the last letter I type so when I try to type "same" it looks like "se"
 
Love the keyboard, but almost impossible to decipher how to use the product. There are from what I can see no, tutorials, no instructions etc. Its a waste of even 1.99 unless you have hours to figure out how to use it.
 
freediverx said:
And this is why Apple has not and will not allow something like this to replace the standard keyboard on iOS.

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And why is that? If you do not like any particular keyboard then don't install it. Or do you prefer Apple to always decide what is good for you?
 
"nor does it allow users to switch between swipes and standard key entry"

Not true. I'm doing it as I type this.
 
johnnnw said:
Finally.

Swype is my favourite thing about Android.
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Mine too (or at least the generic gesture typing that comes with Android). It's the typing system that makes sense for touch screens. Instead of mimicking traditional typing, you can just slide your finger around (making it really easy to use one-handed). Gesture typing is something Apple should introduce as an option in iOS.
 
JoEw said:
Perhaps IOS8 will finally open more areas of IOS for 3rd part development.
In any case he should stick this thing on Cydia for $1.99 it will sell like hotcakes.
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I think you confused the word sell with pirated, as in "it will be pirated like hotcakes."

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rextilleon said:
Love the keyboard, but almost impossible to decipher how to use the product. There are from what I can see no, tutorials, no instructions etc. Its a waste of even 1.99 unless you have hours to figure out how to use it.
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Yeah, how do you screw up a note taking app?
 
Fresh Pie said:
Dear Apple,
If you really love me, buy this company!
Cordially yours,
FP

P.S. Figure out a way to make recording portrait videos impossible.
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Yes. There should be enough pixels on the sensor to record horizontal even if the phone is vertical. I think. I didn't do the math
 
Fresh Pie said:
P.S. Figure out a way to make recording portrait videos impossible.
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So you want lower resolution on the portrait-shaped object of interest so that we can see unchanging footage of his desk on either side?

This is the apotheosis of the widescreen police. As with photography, sometimes it makes more sense to shoot in portrait mode. If you can't realize that in this case -- where it could hardly be more clear, since the object being shot (a phone in portrait orientation) is about as suited to portrait mode as it gets -- it's hopeless.
 
If anybody is thinking of downloading this app for serious usage, be careful, I just did and the app is a mess, the interface is really hard to understand and the app is extremely glitchy (including keyboard panels beyond the "qwerty" one). I'd seriously recommend not to buy this until it gets its bugs fixed.

I guess the keyboard itself is nice but it's also glitchy. It would be nice to have something similar to this in iOS but I can imagine Tim Cook trying the app and crying "Screw this ***t!"

The "shake for help" feature is full of lolz, basically if you shake the phone when you are confronted with a score of alien icons, tiny labels will be displayed on them for a split second :).
 
maknik said:
So you want lower resolution on the portrait-shaped object of interest so that we can see unchanging footage of his desk on either side?
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No, I want him to shoot landscape video and hold the phone closer to the camera, so we see the fingers and words being typed in greater detail. As it is, the video was letterboxed, so it's already lower resolution.

maknik said:
This is the apotheosis of the widescreen police. As with photography, sometimes it makes more sense to shoot in portrait mode. If you can't realize that in this case -- where it could hardly be more clear, since the object being shot (a phone in portrait orientation) is about as suited to portrait mode as it gets -- it's hopeless.
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In this context, photography and videography are completely different. The footage was shot, downressed to the height of landscape video, and then two black boxes (both of which are now larger than the object of focus) were tacked on to either side—this doesn't happen with photos, which can be rotated and scrolled through if necessary.
 
Let's redesign everything!

Ambitious and troubling. I'm giving it a shot though.

A free version with just a single note text editor would be nice. This takes a lot of work just getting to the something of that nature.

This thing has an overall UI that is quite out of place on the iPhone. There is nothing familiar. Which means it's perfectly designed to never be noticed by Apple, who needs to be thinking of implementing alternate keyboards.

Just add it to the pile of misfit input devices.
 
freediverx said:
And this is why Apple has not and will not allow something like this to replace the standard keyboard on iOS.
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You might want to reread the part about the app, as opposed to the keyboard.... This is precisely why Apple should open up iOS to 3rd party keyboards.

The stock keyboard of iOS is a joke, firmly stuck in 2006 and Apple has shown that it is incapable of coming up with anything close to some of the excellent keyboards available for Android (my favorite is Swiftkey).

Until Apple opens up iOS, all of these attempts at improving keyboard functionality are futile -- app by app integration is a lost cause which ultimately results in inconsistent UI.

The developer would do much better developing this for the Android side, even if there is a much greater competition there. In this respect, Apple truly sucks :(
 
maknik said:
So you want lower resolution on the portrait-shaped object of interest so that we can see unchanging footage of his desk on either side?

This is the apotheosis of the widescreen police. As with photography, sometimes it makes more sense to shoot in portrait mode. If you can't realize that in this case -- where it could hardly be more clear, since the object being shot (a phone in portrait orientation) is about as suited to portrait mode as it gets -- it's hopeless.
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Agreed, they clearly wanted to just show the app as large as possible in the frame. The video isn't an Oscar candidate.

More importantly, the app doesn't run in landscape, that's about the stupidest move they could have made if they are trying to get noticed.
 
I think there's a future for some company to come up with thumb join replacements. There's going to be a LOT of people with massive arthritis problems in their thumbs in the coming years from year over-use wearing out the cartilage from all these pointless texting sessions. Back in my day, we had something better than texting. It was called a VOICE CALL. These days, people will actually text each other sitting next to each other rather than use their mouths. :D

Of course, 99.9% of all texting is pointless jabber anyway about nothing anyway as are most human conversations. I personally wouldn't want to have arthritis in my thumbs over such things, but obviously people won't realize there's a problem until it's too late. I'll give it about another ten years before the cases pile up to the point where it's on the news as an epidemic. And yes, I wish I was kidding.

Oh wait. There's already articles out there (ironic they called it "Blackberry Thumb"... that must have been from a few years ago seeing Blackberry is pretty much dead now):

http://www.fox21news.com/news/story.aspx?id=621947#.UtG46vZG3ZE

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-real-iphone-killer--arthritis-2011-8

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/04/thumbing-your-way-to-arthritis.html

Heh, this article predicts 98% of teenagers will have arthritis in their thumbs by age 30. Gee, I'm glad I don't text....

http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2011/04/01/thumbs-down/#.UtG5ffZG3ZE
 
This is too complicated for most users.

Apple is a company that thought two mouse buttons was too much for people to figure out, I really don't see them buying up this company and integrating it into iOS.
 
I don't expect Apple to ever allow 3rd-party keyboards.

However, I do expect them to come up with their own gesture keyboard. Typing has always been a significant problem for touchscreen devices, and enough people know about and prefer these kinds of keyboards that Apple is just going to do it.

I don't know if there's any kind of patent protection on the idea, because there's loads of clones out there. If there is, Swype probably owns it (IIRC, they're the original creators of this kind of keyboard), and they're owned by Nuance. Apple have good relations with Nuance (they power Siri's voice recognition), so licensing shouldn't be any problem at all.

In fact, I'm sure Nuance would love to have Apple license the gesture keyboard. Not only would it bring in lots of royalties, but it'd make the feature even more mainstream and a must-have for competing Android devices.
 
Fascinating. One of the things I really dislike about iOS is the slow input speed. I can type 135wpm on my MacBookPro keyboard. iOS keyboards are a paltry 20% of that. Painful.
 
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