I had a whole reply dedicated to my favorite keyboard of all time. And how it was far superior to Swype.
The keyboard was called Shapewriter, and it was great. It was fast, smooth, it's word prediction and learning was superior to all other swiping keyboards, etc. Then, it went away.
It was bought by Nuance and incorporated the code into their FlexT9 keyboard. And that is what I was using up until about 30 minutes ago. I was going to say "Swype isn't nearly as good as FlexT9!"
But as I was looking for the appstore link to FlexT9, I couldn't find it. Why? Nuance also bought out Swype.
So I installed the Swype beta. And, wouldn't you know it, it looks like they slapped the Swype brand name on top of Shapewriter/FlexT9! It's still as smooth, fast, great prediction/learning, etc.
So, yes. My reply which was essentially going to be "Swype sucks!" is now "Swype rocks! Go get Swype immediately!"
If any of you are not a fan of Swype (like myself) but haven't tried the app in the last few weeks (like myself) I STRONGLY recommend giving it another look. Like I said, it's a far superior software with just a more recognizable brand name slapped onto it.
I don't know if it's just the beta that has the new software, but that's what I'm running. You can check it out at beta.swype.com