I cant understand whySwiftkey still cant learn from WhatsApp. They had such a big advantage in the mobile keyboard market and are going to loose it because of missing new communication channels...
Swiftkey Keyboard Android is now free
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#22So how will they make money now? By selling people's data?
Selling an iPhone app for iOS8.
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#23I wish they had a semi-transparent theme.
It wouldn't do anything. The keyboard resizes the activity window. There's nothing behind it to show through it.
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#25I can now give my data away for free instead of paying. Woo hoo. :)
No "cloud-enabled" app without snarky comments about data sharing. Sigh. I personally like the dictionary sync across devices. Especially because I use SwiftKey for German which always suffers from terrible dictionary coverage. But what stops you from disabling all online features?
The question is: once online feature is disabled, can you really be sure no information about you is shared beyond your back?
Edit
From what I gather they're not open source: I would be happier to see them go FOSS than free.
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#26So how will they make money now? By selling people's data?
Well you can purchase in-app themes now, so I guess that's what they're banking on. Sorry but I have to throw a [citation needed] on your comment to stop the spread of FUD.
Yeah, I might should have toned down my flippant tone, but I was genuinely curious as to how they are planning to make money. Obviously in-app themes is one choice, but I don't see that working out in the long run. Hopefully they will do great in the iOS store as it really is a good app!
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#27Another keyboard that requires network connectivity, profile/contact data, call state, access to photos/recordings (eh?) and even wants to send SMS[1]. Do users really don't care and blindly ignore all security warnings?
Just wondering why keyboard makers don't provide "restricted" builds of their software, that intentionally lack some features, but still serve their purpose by providing an efficient method to type at a reasonable price.
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[1] EDIT: Not sure, this could be localization error in a Play Store. Reportedly it says "read your text messages" in English, but for me what I see roughly translates to "send SMS and MMS".
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#28Desperation as Fleksy slowly begins to destroy them
Certainly not considering they only support one language at a time…
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#29I found SwiftKey's performance to deteriorate markedly after a few months of use. After that I switched to Kii, which was fine. But now after jumping around I am back to stock, which I actually enjoy a lot more than I did the other two. Google's keyboard feels much more responsive to me and I don't feel like it handles swipe recognition pretty well. It's not as great at prediction but I found using that feature to slow me down anyway. Only feature I really miss is deleting an entire word by swiping space-backspace
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
No "cloud-enabled" app without snarky comments about data sharing. Sigh. I personally like the dictionary sync across devices. Especially because I use SwiftKey for German which always suffers from terrible dictionary coverage. But what stops you from disabling all online features?
The question is: once online feature is disabled, can you really be sure no information about you is shared beyond your back? Edit From what I gather they're not open source: I would be happier to see them go FOSS than free.
If you have App Ops you can prevent any app from phoning home, or just gathering sensitive data in the first place (although you can't stop a keyboard from storing your keystrokes).