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.

  • Quasar@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yeah those keyboard layouts are TERRIBLE! Takes forever to type anything and I usually make mistakes too. Now I use AppleTVs and as soon as I open a search field my iPhone pops up a keyboard to type instead of using the remote, or I can use the Siri Remote to dictate the phrase. Still would prefer a QWERTY layout though.

    • max@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The text input pop-up on iPhones when using an Apple TV really is one of the best features I’ve encountered in streaming-land.