@gruber Yep. I had all the threads in my hands, Now as I think back, I stopped working on text-related things to begin a year-long project to add multitasking gestures to Springboard. It was a lot of work to decide quickly whether to handle touches in Springboard or dispatch those events to the frontmost app. Eventually, the descendant of that work allowed the iPhone to go without a physical home button.

@gruber @kocienda The really depressing thing is that Learn Spelling would probably break all the machine learning bullshit (or at least be hard to work side-by-side), so it’s unlikely to happen now.