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by j45 4901 days ago
Lol.. Not sure who downvoted, but the act of writing letters on the bottom of the screen to type it in for you = Grafitti.

It may be possible that the trees (not handwriting) are being missed for the forest (writing at the bottom of a touch screen) is nothing new.

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The novelty of Graffiti is that it emulates what we write, how we write it in analog form. The motions and shapes made while using this app don't have that sort of relationship. Is gesture typing, or Swype, or Swiftkey rip offs of Graffiti because one traces their finger in a path abstracted from the alphabet?