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

  • 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.

    • 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…