The QWERTY layout is, I grant you, an illogical mess. I'm happy to hear your arguments that Dvorak is the one true way. Or that Colemak is several percent faster. But QWERTY is a standard now. Everyone uses it on their laptops and phones. It is used everywhere. Except, it turns out, streaming services. They [...]

I’ve written a blog post about the most important technological issue of our time - why every streaming service has its own weird keyboard.

  • sabret00the@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    QWERTY should’ve been retired with the typewriter. It makes zero logical sense to use on touch screen let alone remote. Familiarity isn’t a good enough reason.

    • flick_my_bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sorry but have to disagree, it makes complete sense on touch screen, most power users on tablets and phones use 2+ fingers to type, the reason the keys are the way they are is to spread load between your fingers or thumbs, so your not typing 90% of the letters with 1 side of your keyboard, on screen or otherwise. Some people use 1 finger … mostly people who say QWERTY is useless, without understanding why it exists.

      • omenmis@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Power users also actively seek out their own optimal setup, so retiring something has less impact. Though I guess keyboards would become even more of a pissing contest than they already are if we didn’t “standardize” qwerty…