See also: the Quicksilver/Launchbar/Alfred ideas that are being folded into Spotlight in Yosemite. The big surprise is not that iOS8 is getting Swype, but that

See also: the Quicksilver/Launchbar/Alfred ideas that are being folded into Spotlight in Yosemite. The big surprise is not that iOS8 is getting Swype, but that they are opening the APIs up for arbitrary third-party keyboards (albeit heavily curated, I'm sure).