The popular alternative keyboard Swiftkey has app free. Until Wednesday, it took the virtual keyboard around the 3 euro. The company now wants to make money from the sale of themes in his own Store.
The step is according to Swiftkey necessary, because of the 200 million installations of the virtual keyboard, there are only 6 million paid copies; the other 194 million downloads are probably the free version, a version, a manufacturer and illegal downloads. This implies that the keyboard in the past few years, a total of around 12 million euros has been delivered for the company, but after the one-time payment earned Swiftkey nothing more to the users.
The keyboard itself is therefore free of charge and users have to pay for themes, which the company in its own Store. The intention is to provide a permanent stream of income, even of users who until now have not been paid. Users who have the paid version, as a number of themes to use.
Swiftkey is an alternative keyboard for Android that words try to fill in and to predict on the basis of what users in the past have typed. It is one of the popular keyboards for Android. Swiftkey also comes out for iOS 8, that for the first time keyboards from third parties on the iPhones.
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