TechRepublic - The seemingly-random arrangement of the letters on the keyboard had little to do with the needs of the typist. The first version of the keyboard, conjured by its inventor Christopher Latham Sholes in the late 1860s, had two simple rows of keys in alphabetical order.
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Microsoft has acquired SwiftKey, a company that built an intuitive keyboard for iOS and Android (but not Windows Phone) devices, according to a new report today.
Now that Apple has finally opened its iOS platform to third-party keyboard developers, the eager bunch at SwiftKey are grinning from ear to ear. Although it’s not completely understood how many iOS users — stuck in their Apple keyboard ways — will actually use the app, SwiftKey has unveiled it’s plans for its iOS 8 keyboard that includes cloud prediction services and full swipe-to-type support.
Unless you're in an area where you inclined to be quite and discrete, using Siri to dictate for you is much, MUCH faster.