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Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> It seems Swiftkey is doomed since Apple is offering essentially the
> same functionality via their own code, which comes pre-installed.  Why
> bother to download/pay for Swiftkey?  To me, that's like IE coming
> pre-installed on Win95: why bother downloading/buying a different
> browser?

Well, Google did the same basically didn't they? They added prediction
and swiping to the stock Android keyboard and even made it a freebie in
the Play store so you can run it on any Android device.

Swiftkey still has value on Android as it syncs personal dictionaries
between devices and has multi language support on predictions. 

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Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-19 13:00 +0000
  Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-19 11:53 -0700
    Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-20 09:32 +0000
      Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-20 09:52 +0000
      Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-21 02:06 +0100
      Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-06-21 14:23 +0300
    Re: Apple does to Swiftkey what Microsoft did to Netscape "voyager529" <voyager529@live.com> - 2015-03-27 12:12 -0400

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