G+_George Kozi Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Originally shared by George Kozi Everything Tech is geared towards the Qwerty keyboard layout. I use Dvorak for several reasons that can be found by googling the layout . What, if anything, are the manufacturers doing to include the Dvorak layout in their products? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Matt Lyons Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I don't see why they would. It's way too small of a target audience to bother wasting time/money on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 there is one reason that immediately springs to mind. The Tech industry should be all about innovation and optimization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Matt Lyons Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 It's not really enough optimization to bother trying to switch everyone over though. QWERTY works just fine and there are plenty of other more important ways to innovate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Lou Gagliardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tor Iver Wilhelmsen Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Have people already forgotten that the reason QWERTY exists is to prevent the mechanical arms of typewriters to entangle? Why retain that just because of tradition? It's a bit like all the hacks implemented to get around the 7-bit limit of ASCII that stems from long-dead protocols... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 wow... pretty conservative views expressed above ... and some of them even come with epithets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Loft Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Why would they bother implementing a feature for a such a small portion of the market. Just get a touch screen Android and install a Dvorak keyboard from Google Play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Donna Daley Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I think that it is a simple market share problem. I don't think that will change, while the Dvorak keyboard may be faster in the long term, I know the Qwerty, and in the short term my typing will be slowed down, because I will be working against muscle memory. I suspect that most would feel the same way, which would mean that most wont change, which gives manufacturers very little reason to include it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 for me speed is a secondary but not unimportant argument. The reduced chance for RSI takes precedent over it.... but that's just me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Zulhaimi Abdul Hamid Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Any relations to John C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steven Hildebrand Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Is it saving several minutes per typewritten page? No? Not much reason to change, then. Innovation for the sake of change isn't really innovative. Assuming everyone in the world switched over to the Dvorak tomorrowand was proficient by the end of the week, what benefits would this innovation bring? A few dozen man-hours per department annually? Pushing for widespread SSD implementation will save a couple magnitudes of order more than that, and requires no re-training or hardware modification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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