Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million

Re:Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million by Adaptive on Thursday October 06, 2011 @09:48PM (#3082331)

I have used swype to text with my non dominant hand, swaying back and forth in the subway with full accuracy. Without it I honestly feel like I don't have a keyboard installed.

I keep waiting for it to exit beta and show up in the market. This acquisition, while good for Swype, makes me feel like that is just not going to happen. I expect licenses and bundling with phones. I hope I'm wrong.

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Re:Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million by spacemanaki on Thursday October 06, 2011 @10:16PM (#3082386)

In the best way possible, I hope you're wrong too. But that's clearly where the money is, and from this FAQ it sounds like there are some technical pains-in-the-asses with developing and supporting an app like this, which I can certainly understand:

http://beta.swype.com/android/faq/

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Re:Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million by ConstantineXVI on Thursday October 06, 2011 @10:19PM (#3082392)

Nuance already sells a Swype like keyboard in the Market as FlexT9, bundling is not their only business model.

PS: what you describe is precisely Swype's business model.

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Re:Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million by Adaptive on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:37PM (#3085792)

It is one part of their business model but there is also a pretty extensive consumer direct beta program that I'm still part of.

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