Google Developing Search-Focused Third-Party Keyboard for iOS

Means that Google can capture everything you type on your keyboard. That's huge for them. Knowing everything you type in your texts and everything you type in your browser and every other app means lots of great data to use when marketing to you with ads. Super smart move on their part. Huge privacy concern but most people won't care enough to bother not using it. They're happy to let Google collect every other bit of info without question so this will be no different.

Queue people saying they don't trust Google to know every single thing they type when this requires "Full Access" in 3...2...1...

"I don't trust Google to know everything I type"

Can Apple fix third party keyboards first?

No way would I install a Google Keyboard...or Maps, or Gogle Now, or Mail, or.....

YouTube is the only owned by Google app I have... begrudgingly....bad day when Google bought it.

YouTube is the only owned by Google app I have... begrudgingly....bad day when Google bought it.

I don't even have YouTube installed. When someone shares a link to YT, it goes into a Private browsing safari window.

Yep and if I were to post that in /r/privacy on Reddit I'd get downvoted to oblivion by people who trust Google with their lives but can't trust the cops with a criminal's 'private' data.

Pretty funny how it works. People are paranoid about how companies are using their information but that never applies to Google. When you point out that they index everything in each email you send and receive (try writing an email where you mention socks a number of times and see how many socks ads you start seeing), they shrug and are totally cool with it.

The Android was made just for this purpose. Create a smartphone OS and give it away. What do they get in return? They index all the text messages, web searches, sites visited, applications used, and more. It gives them a huge pile of useful information. It's brilliant and allows them to make billions from advertisers.

People value their privacy unless they feel they're getting something in return for it. Doesn't matter how cheap that thing is. Gmail may be free but there are countless other email services that are free and don't invade your privacy. Still, people are totally cool with it because they feel they've been given something.

It's funny that these same people that complain about privacy think that Facebook is invading it, while Google is not. Google is doing much more to mine your data and build a profile of you for advertising and other purposes than Facebook is at this point. Strange they see one as evil but the other as a friend.

Too bad... If this is true, it will get millions of download... I will install it on my iPhone to test it out (finally I can take it out from my drawer for almost half years)... It will sync all my dictionaries across devices. Sweet.

Apple's crappy keyboard is no comparison with Google's keyboard on Android (and so is iOS is no comparison with Android)

Using Android daily and iPad. Using everything Google. Enjoying syncing all my stuff across devices. No way I will get back to Apple's walled garden. And Apple Maps still sucks...

You run Android on an iPad? How?

Also, if Apple's 'walled garden' sucks then why are you here?

Too bad... If this is true, it will get millions of download... I will install it on my iPhone to test it out (finally I can take it out from my drawer for almost half years)... It will sync all my dictionaries across devices. Sweet.

Apple's crappy keyboard is no comparison with Google's keyboard on Android (and so is iOS is no comparison with Android)

Using Android daily and iPad. Using everything Google. Enjoying syncing all my stuff across devices. No way I will get back to Apple's walled garden. And Apple Maps still sucks...

Oh Canada.

You do realize all Apple's stuff syncs across all devices too right? Walled garden? Curious what I can't do on iOS that you can on Android.

I don't trust Google to know everything I type

Means that Google can capture everything you type on your keyboard. That's huge for them. Knowing everything you type in your texts and everything you type in your browser and every other app means lots of great data to use when marketing to you with ads. Super smart move on their part. Huge privacy concern but most people won't care enough to bother not using it. They're happy to let Google collect every other bit of info without question so this will be no different.

Yep and if I were to post that in /r/privacy on Reddit I'd get downvoted to oblivion by people who trust Google with their lives but can't trust the cops with a criminal's 'private' data.