Time to say goodbye to Swype

The keyboard app responsible for making swipeable virtual keyboard an essential feature is going away. Nuance, the company who bought Swype around six years ago, just announced it’s discontinuing the app for both iOS and Android. Users can still use it as normal and will continue to have access to tech support in the coming months despite it being taken out of the app stores. Nuance it seems wants to put its focus on its other products, specifically mentioning their artificial intelligence-powered solutions.

In a statement sent to The Verge, Nuance said, “the core technology behind Swype will continue to be utilized and improved upon across other Nuance offerings—and integrated into our broader AI-powered solutions—most notably in Android-based keyboard solutions for our automotive customers.”

Nuance releases PaperPort Notes for the iPad with Dragon Dictation

The beauty of Apple's iPad is that because it has such a solid developer community, we are only now starting to scratch the surface of what we can do with the device. Take for example PaperPort Notes which is a note-taking app that allows people to combine documents, web content, audio, typed text, handwritten notes – and now dictated notes – into a single document that can be easily organized and shared with anyone.

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