Why is no one competing with Apple / Googles keyboard?

Microsoft seems to be actively developing Swiftkey (not dropping support):

> Today, we are announcing... updates to SwiftKey that put the Bing AI experience one touch away across any iOS or Android mobile experience that supports a third-party keyboard.

https://blogs.bing.com/search/april-2023/Easily-access-the-n...

Because they're good enough. Also they're potential keyloggers and have access to all your passwords, conversations, and searches. You already trust the OS with those; much harder for some random third party startup to do.

Why should anyone "compete" on mobile keyboards?

I used to have a couple third-party ones installed on my iPhone (Grammarly is one whose name I can remember)

Found myself having to constantly go back to the factory keyboard so I could actually type (keytap-to-screen lag on some was on the order of a second or more)

And some of those keyboards had ads

Or exported copies of what I was typing off my phone

No thank you

Try searching in the Play store. There are tons of keyboard apps, one of which is SwiftKey. My Samsung phone didn't come with Google's keyboard and I've never felt the need to install it.

Apples.keyboard.is.god.enough. But I'm hardly we'd to it. If there we're an alternative to consider, perhaps Swift key from Microsoft?

I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rkr.simplekeyb...

It doesn't have a lot of features, but it continues to work just as well as it did when I installed it. Which is more than I can say for Google's keyboard.

I couldn't find any recent news on Microsoft dropping support for SwiftKey

There was one created by IIT in Mumbai, India. It is/was a multilingual keypad: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=iit.android.sw...

Why? Apple fans won't even admit the iOS experience is bad...