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.

  • @Pekka@feddit.nlEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Interesting blog post. Yea, those a-z layouts are really weird. They remind me of the text input the old Pokémon games had. On Smart TV’s I always try to avoid using the keyboard if it is possible to type the input on my phone.