14 DAY TRIAL // TouchType, the makers of the popular SwiftKey app for Droids, is really excited about Tim Cook’s “openness” comments at the D11 conference.
Speaking to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher a couple of weeks ago, the Apple CEO said Apple was on track to become more open.
“I think you will see us open up more in the future,” he said. “But not to the degree that we put the customer at risk of having a bad experience.”
TouchType’s Marketing Chief Joe Braidwood admits in a telephone interview with All Things D that everyone in his firm is now waiting on the edge of their seats for Apple to open the keyboard API (application programming interface) in iOS 7.
“It’s great they are thinking in that way,” said Braidwood. “That’s very different from the message we would have gotten a year ago.”
“The most obvious API for them to open is the keyboard, because it is the greatest weakness,” Braidwood added. “The keyboard is the thing that needs work more than anything on that platform.”
“If and when the keyboard is liberalized, we would jump on it with the greatest speed we could bring to the table,” Braidwood said.