Swiftkey, Swype and Flesky are already working on QWERTY keyboards for iOS 8

Now that Apple has opened up the QWERTY keyboard on iOS 8, a trio of third party QWERTY developers are in various stages of finishing their offerings for the next build of Apple's mobile OS. Highly regarded Fleksy, which was just used by Marcel Fernandes to break the Guinness Book of World Records for "fastest texting on a touch-screen mobile phone," is taking names for a Beta program. The company says that it will be one of the first to offer a keyboard for iOS 8.



Meanwhile, SwiftKey, usually one of the top paid apps in the Google Play Store year in and year out, says that it has already ...