This issue involves the development direction of keyboards, which is inevitable in terms of development logic. The status of existing keyboards is due to their adaptability to the use of desktops. The popularization and development of desktops have consolidated the status of existing keyboards, but existing keyboards are not suitable for the rapidly developing laptops. In the future, students and white-collar workers will be the largest users of laptops, and portability and versatility will be the ultimate determining factors. To achieve portability of keyboards, The existing QWERTY keyboard layout has become a great obstacle, and to solve this contradiction, changes in keyboard layout are inevitable, which is also the reason for the emergence of various new layouts.
The objective reason why widely used laptop keyboards succumb to the QWERTY layout is to achieve basic universality with desktop keyboards. However, continuing to use the QWERTY layout also brings great passivity to laptop keyboards, making it difficult to reduce their size. The portability of keyboards is based on the cost of inconvenient use. On the contrary, if a new layout is adopted, it will completely lose universality and the inconvenience of use will be more obvious. If a new layout must be changed, universality will be an insurmountable obstacle. It is gratifying that this dilemma has been largely resolved.
The replacement of existing keyboards with new layout keyboards should follow the principle of replacement. In the initial stage, two layouts must coexist, and relying on the advantages of the new keyboard to attract initial users, gradually expanding its influence, and driving those who intend to change their usage habits to use the new layout. This requires the new layout to have easy to learn and use characteristics. One thing to note during the coexistence phase is that it is crucial not to affect the use of the original users, and this is equal choice. The problem mainly occurs on desktop computer keyboards.
