Of course SwiftKey also faces a rush of keyboard rivals scrambling to roll out their own wares on a shiny new iOS plot. Pricing has not yet been announced for the app which will be released on September 17, in line with the launch of iOS 8. The latest iteration of Apple’s mobile software, iOS 8, opened up the platform to third party system wide keyboards, paving the way for the SwiftKey software Disrupt attendees saw demoed by CMO Joe Braidwood. But with Apple opening a door in its walled garden to third party keyboards, SwiftKey now has a shot at scaling its business on a whole new platform - a platform where it could only dabble before. The UK startup, which was founded in 2008 when the iPhone’s native keyboard was definitively closed to alternative keyboard software, built a business on the open Android platform. It’s a keyboard customized and contextualized to what you tend to type. SwiftKey’s machine learning software learns its users’ syntax, slang and social language usage to offer intelligent next word predictions within the context of the missive being created to help speed up the touchscreen typing process. SwiftKey, the predictive keyboard startup that was embedded on more than 100 million Android devices last year, and more than 200 million cumulatively, has demoed its software working on iOS 8 for the first time here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF.
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