Apple takes a leaf from Google's book, adds contextual prediction to the keyboard in iOS 8

One of the several new features that were stressed upon during the unveiling of iOS 8 at the WWDC is the new keyboard, named QuickType. It comes with predictive suggestions and is touted as being able to guess the next word you'd want to input. All in all, this new functionality seems quite similar to the ones in Google's own Android keyboard, LG's new Smart Keyboard, and some popular 3rd party ones, such as SwiftKey, GO Keyboard, Swype, TouchPal X, Fleksy, and many more...



Still, Apple's QuickType will learn your typing habits on the device and won't do it from the cloud. This is being ...