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Re:Swype VP confirms talks with Apple on revolutionary keybo... by StavrosK on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:48PM (#5616156)
I agree with you, it just seems to me that Swype was very... unorthodox in its development. They spent years not publicizing it, the development process was opaque (not that SwiftKey is more open), etc.

SwiftKey definitely has its flaws too. There are some persistent bugs that just don't get fixed. I find it very odd that companies with products so popular act as if they're abandoned.

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Re:Swype VP confirms talks with Apple on revolutionary keybo... by incision on Friday April 26, 2013 @08:01PM (#5616204)
I'm as puzzled as you are about exactly the same things.

I think it says a lot that I was genuinely surprised when Swype finally showed up on Play. I'd written it off as forever sideloaded and not totally compatible. Likewise, I have no expectation of niggling bugs in SwiftKey ever being fixed.

As I recall, both Swype and Swiftkey annoyingly expired their beta packages from time to time and both used confusing non/not-quite mobile pages for sign up and to download updates.

Baffling.

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