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

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[–] sabret00the@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 0 points 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.