Microsoft reportedly buys Swiftkey Predictive Keyboard Company for $250 MILLION dollars. if you don't already know what swiftkey is, it's a third party app. that allows you to implement a much more customizable keyboard on Android and I believe has been recently added to iOS. this technology has already existed on Windows mobile (But who uses that anyways) though there's a good chance it could be implemented into Windows 10. which has a "Okay" touch keyboard. it's not terrible. but it's not all that good either. for all we know this may be a good thing. or a bad thing. only time will tell.
Thoughts?
inb4 Microsoft is going to spy on everyone with this keyboard software
to be fair, this may not change a thing. if anything Google and iOS could just add the feature that Swiftkey has. which technically is already there i believe, it's just not up to par depending on who you talk to.
Also I use the drawing words sorta dragging along the keyboard thing alot more than I thought I would cause it works so well Miss that. Think Swiftkey might have it But eh Google keyboard is gud
Well, I guess I better learn how to spell properly now.
In all seriousness, this will either mean Microsoft stealing more souls than a ginger, or absolutely diddly squat. I don't use predictive text things, but I still hope it's the latter.
This was one of the nicest software keyboards I've found. Anyone have any alternate ideas? I don't use they swype like typing features. I just really like the button size and mostly predictive/auto correct. I found it to be quite accurate, especially dealing with punctuation (I'm one of the only people I know that texts in full sentences)
I'm using AOSP keyboard that comes with nameless ROM at the moment, but the space bar is impossibly small so words get jumbled together, and the auto correct seems 50/50 at best. Often it doesn't even give suggestions.