That strikes me as absolutely negligible relative to the amount of software needed in a TVM and the amount of TVMs using the same software. Giving people an extra "button" to swap keyboards would cost virtually nothing.
Probably easy enough to do, but that is all that work is being done for the lowest price, probably in India or Vietnam. And the more stuff you build in, the more stuff that needs to be tested every time you change something, which adds costs
And stewardesses is the longest English word that can be typed with the left hand (in normal two handed typing)
Brilliant! I shall try and remember that.
She needed an IBM Model M keyboard, reputedly it can withstand a direct hit with a 1kT nuke and still work.
They’re great. Mine is still going, albeit through an unholy mess of adapters.
Nah. You just use a library for stuff like that, you don't write a keyboard function for every program, you just call the keyboard function from whatever library you're using.
Libraries? How uncouth! About half our devs are quite happy to add a library, the others would rather not. I’ve not identified any commonality in why, yet. (You can probably guess which half I fall into
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My Sky TV is also ABC which is very slow when trying to type in a full film or programme name. Someone, somewhere has it in for QWERTY!
Now you mention it, my Amazon FireTV does searches like this, although I’m the only one to use the keyboard - the Mrs and all three of the kids use voice commands.
Other than a few differences AZERTY isn't a horrible shock. More familiar than an ABC grid
Not when you touch type and things just don’t go right! It’s not massive, but it’s enough to make you have to go back and correct it often enough!
