IPhone: Still the Best Mobile Keyboard

It's clear from some of the authors other posts that he's not merely an apple fan boy... I believe he really likes the iphone design choices personally.

However several of his criticisms are problematic. First he brings of several issues with swype, but these apply only to the swype implementation of sliding to type. Swype is only one company working on this. It's not clear that his criticisms can be made to apply to the whole sliding to type concept itself.

1 and 2 in swiftkey's flow work as he seems to want them. You see a preview in the preview bar of what will be entered as you move your finger. It changes as you move your finger over each letter.

3, the 1 finger complaint can be addressed at least in part with keymonk which allows 2 handed swyping.

His complaints about next word completion, as well as his complaints about swype both ignore something basic that is well understood on the android side. These things represent a choice.

Not every user will find benefit in these things. But those that do can take advantage of them, while those with an iphone are limited to what the iphone has to offer.

It's not clear to me why he suggests the phone keyboard is best. He doesn't list any advantages specific to it, and arguably it lacks customization. It's certainly good enough for most people, but being good enough for most people isn't the same as being the best.