Interesting.

Manpower are crooks. Literally thieves.

@JaredBusch I am aware of that. However, Apple fought it for a long time, preferring, what I consider, to be an antiquated "one key at a time" method, for phones. Computers are a different story.

There are Swype keyboards outside the official one. Just saying. All the ones I know of work on Android. That's probably tied with the interface for the thing that I hated most about WP8. No Swype and no workaround option.

No surprise there.

@ITcrackerjack you are correct. This is InfoWorld so not super up on programming.

Definitely the big thing is..... Why a new language.

I replace Notepad entirely on all of my computers at home and at work:

http://www.binaryfortress.com/notepadreplacer/

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

@technobabble said:

And found out that it's pronounced Engine X.

Lol. Yup.

@technobabble said:

No Swipe wasn't my reason, screen size was and still is. I also prefer SwiftKey which allow swipe and claims to be the smartest keyboard yet! (I agree)

I too use SwiftKey as my primary keyboard on my Nexus 4. 80% of the time I'm swiping on it as it's much easier for me to do one handed. I'm glad that Apple is allowing 3rd party keyboards through their walled garden though. That's progress.