General Consultant Discussion

I totally agree with these 2 points. Without SwiftKey, I could never live with IOS http://www.zdnet.com/androids-two-killer-innovations-since-the-iphone-5-launch-7000014510/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

Swiftkey is good but it falls down in many areas if what you are typing isn't dictionary words. in those cases it's remarkably ""throw the phone out the window"" slower. Google Now shows a lot of promise. Let's see if they can deliver. There have been several major ""this is not that great"" moments for me. The Olympics were one. Why couldn't they have given medal updates, etc. If I can get baseball scores why couldn't Google have transmitted something more timely around the games. The cards also seem to be sporadic and often not all that interesting or frequent enough for me to think that they are of much use. Google in many respects seems as if they're beginning to lumber along at Microsoft speed. I think Google Glass is going to be an increasing distraction. Anyone in their wildest imagination think that public areas are going to allow people to film 24x7 through glass? Nope. It's not going to happen. You just haven't seen the new rules yet -- similar to how all the rules banning Segways didn't come out until the Segway was actually released and some people bought them. The tech press is overwhelmingly Google friendly as very large majorities of them use Google's free services in their business (often freelance writing). So you tend to get a disproportionate amount of favorable and ""gee whiz"" reactions to Google products. Several areas of Google have been very very slow to improve - multiple account usage and Google Apps integrations to things like G+ for example. All is not a bed of roses.

I disagree on SwiftKey. Sure prediction isn't perfect, but its 10x better than any other option, even better than physical keyboards now. (I get so pissed when typing in Windows and it does just a little bit of prediction as I'm spoiled) IOS pisses me off in the machinations you have to go through when you don't wan't it to autocorrect. You have to backup like 3 times before it gets the idea that yes, you did mean to say Shit and not Shot.... I do wish Swiftkey was better at remembering and auto filling emails as typing in user names and passwords is a bitch on a cell phone constantly. Another peave, WTH doesn't IOS add a number row on ipads? With all that real estate you still have to 'shift' to get to numbers. Another Android feature I love is the way apps can work together. I love the ability to long press an email while driving and have the option for it to be spoken to me in an incredibly natural voice. If I don't like the voice, I can pick from multiple vendors and multiple voices (sometimes I just love that aussie accent) for my tastes. IOS is so locked down.

Is there a way to integrate Swiftkey into the normal IOS message app? I find it a pain to switch back and forth. By the way, I find the autocorrect works much better than any other ios app, and I love the way it gives you other choices of words.