InternetExplorer8

A large amount of people are worried that this new direction will lead in a separation from the Play Store (and other Google Services) - Is this in any way something that current (and future) CM users should be worried about?

Even browsers need a phone. And Internet Explorer chooses Android.

Great thing to hear. Looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store for the future.

Totally agree with you here. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use other keyboard (because some of them were better at static typing, at the time) and having tried typing anything with two consecutive letters was damn near impossible. I can't tell you how much I appreciate being able to remove the "Dragon Speech" thing on the main keyboard (I actually bought it because I saw that option in the Google Play Screenshots) - I used to hit that all the time on accident and the animation was far too long. I love the new keyboard though, both for Swyping and for typing. It's absolutely fantastic.

Only one thing - is there any chance we'd ever see Google's native voice client? The offline voice prediction is just fantastic when you have an awful data signal like I do around work.