Comments on: Swype Acquired By Nuance Communications For $100 Million

By: Granted

Granted — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:44:00 +0000

You are correct, they bought the best side keyboard, just so they could take it’s amazing technology for their own, and get rid of the very best competition. Nuance is pure feces.

By: Granted

Granted — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:40:00 +0000

Actually this is horrible news. Why you say? Well this is the same company that bought out ShapeWriter, only to never release a new version after 3.0.9, and keep it from the Market. So I’m sure they will either take away the second best slide keyboard, Swype, and release their garbage, seeing as how these vultures have bought out all the major competition, not counting the insanely over-priced SlideIt. Or, they will simply mangle Swype until it’s just a piece of crap as well. Nuance can eat my man meat, I’ll never forgive them for murdering my hopes for a new version of ShapeWriter, the absolute best slide keyboard ever made. And even the original creators of ShapeWriter, who made Flex T9, well, it’s not the worst, but in interface and build quality, it’s miles behind ShapeWriter.

If anybody wants a copy of ShapeWriter, email me at bestdamnkeyboard@nym.hush.com. I’ll be happy to hook you up with a Dropbox link, but know three link will expire after four days. And also, the last version released will not work properly on your tablet, it functions, but it’s not optimized and only takes up 1/5 of your screen real estate, sadly.

By: JY20

JY20 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:42:00 +0000

Agree. Knowing how Apple is and their anti-competitive ways, I wouldn’t be surprised if Swype becomes iOS only.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:00:00 +0000

to both, personally I like the stock multitouch keyboard. I don’t even need to look most of the time.

By: Jsternbe

Jsternbe — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:59:00 +0000

Isn’t Nuance the same company that bought out Shapewriter and made it disappear from the marketplace? It makes me wonder what they are up to.

By: Black

Black — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:40:00 +0000

When I used my OGD……. I had “shapewriter” same concept as swpye…. and it is AWESOME.

If you know how to use those proggy’s properly you can type incredible fast. Especially on larger words. Touch screen with swype is way better then pecking for keys….. if you suck at using swype thats OK don’t use it, but it is an amazing tool.

You may be able to type Mathematically VERY quickly, but I can gaurntee that swyping would be much faster….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:43:00 +0000

Agree. Swype is a terrible method of input, I’ve never understood the point of it, I’ve tried it multiple times and it just doesn’t come close to normal typing. But I’ll tell you this, I wish I had created it now, swype nerd is sitting on a pile of cash.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:00:00 +0000

That’s what I was wondering. Maybe they have more brewing than just the Swype keyboard that we as general public laymen don’t know about.

By: Greg Warner

Greg Warner — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:54:00 +0000

How is Swype worth $100 mil?

By: Tboltuser

Tboltuser — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:51:00 +0000

Someone explain to me why we should expect to see swype or nuance vr go exclusively to iOS? Why would they (Nuance) limit their customer base to only iOS users, especially considering they and swype already support Android, and Android has a larger customer base. The last time I checked, Nuance is a business trying to make a profit. The currently push their commercial products as something that will integrate with most platforms.

By: Billyrouth2000

Billyrouth2000 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:26:00 +0000

To you flexT9 may be better but to me it just plain sucks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:52:00 +0000

Swype has contracts with manufacturers to embed their keyboard, Nuance does not, so far as I’m aware. There were probably cross-licensing agreements in place between the two where it made more sense to acquire.

It’s way more than just this keyboard versus that keyboard.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:41:00 +0000

Wonder what (if anything) this means for Flex T9, nuances “answer” to Swype.

By: ahhhr32

ahhhr32 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:40:00 +0000

Talk about sheer waste of money…. Nuance made FlexT9 which absolutely destroys Swype as a Swipe style keyboard.

By: ahhhr32

ahhhr32 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:40:00 +0000

Meh, FlexT9 would already be on iOS if that was going to happen… it’s better than swype anyway.