Swype enabled app? You mean a developer can create a service for Android and other apps can interface with it? Amazing. It’s like the Android folks don’t actually think they know everything their users could ever want or their developer might ever create. Interesting.

I think it would take a lot of getting used to but it is an interesting idea. I want to play with it to see how it feels. One thing though, it might help those of us with larger fingers hit the right key.

Nemo, Stick with being a lawyer . I’m talking about **replacing** a key service (i.e. the keyboard) and making it possible for applications to work with that service, as shown in the video. Because that’s what these guys did on Android. And without having to get permission or approval from Google. While I’d love to see this on the iPhone, I’d also enjoy the spectacle of seeing how Apple deals with this if the developer doesn’t want to deal with them. I know it would be instructive .

As to what you and others here wonder about why I remain interested in Apple technologies… All of my products for the last decade have been for Mac and Windows. I develop with a 3rd party tool (REALbasic) that lets me deploy easily to both, without being locked too much into either vendor’s environments (I have to for small portions where speed counts). I take a platform agnostic position expressed by Leo Laporte on his show last weekend. If you’re a gamer, you go PC. If you’re editing video, you go Mac. Otherwise, it’s up to your own tastes because the platforms are now mostly the same. The only key differences I note are that Mac OS X has solved the flicker problem with double buffered windows, and Apple apps tend to stay a little simpler (which is good in my book) than equivalent Microsoft apps. Less than 20% of my revenue comes from exclusive-Mac customers, and about 40% from straddlers. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Mac. I don’t have any spot in my heart for the control freaks Apple have become especially in the last 2 or 3 years.

But since my answer isn’t “I’m picking up and leaving” or “I’m sorry for offending your religious beliefs”, I don’t expect many of you here in the TMO comment boards to understand or appreciate the subtleties of my thoughts on Apple, the Mac, the iPhone, etc. Your loss.

Subtlety and thought in a Bosco post? Together? I’d like to see that some day.

I haven’t ever blocked anyone on sites with more considered discussions, but your recent self-importance is about to make you an exception. Falling back on the old “Apple religion” b.s. to denigrate others here and prop yourself up does nothing for your arguments. In fact, it just makes you look silly, and takes away from any points your arguments might actually have. The loss, really, is yours.

It’s a pitty that this is only in English so I can’t use it.
BTW, it has great resemblance with Dasur’s SlideIT. That one is blazing fast and easy to use (and supports several languages).

Actually Swype supports 26 languages and we hope to support 50+ within the next year!

Actually Swype supports 26 languages and we hope to support 50+ within the next year!

Actually Swype supports only English and Spanish.
But SlideIT has already 14 language packs : Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

The keyboard is provided with primary and secondary languages, and the user can switch between them at any time

see here: http://mobiletextinput.com/Product/SlideIT/Multilanguage.php