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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As a Dvorak user, Dvorak is pretty terrible for single-finger typing since the focus is on hand-alternation. If I had the choice I’d probably choose this.
There have been layouts developed for single or limited-finger use and I think it’s a shame they never caught on.
Have to respectfully disagree on this. For typing purposes, QWERY is indeed better, but if you’re using a remote’s up-down-left-right buttons, I feel a-z feels more familiar.
As a full time colemak user, QWERTY really does my head in these days. I regress to a one-finger typist every time!
As a colemak user, I would prefer abc instead of qwerty
What about Youtube and HBO Max?
I really like how Kodi let’s you send text to the media centre from your phone keyboard using an app.
Quite incredible that so many modern streaming interfaces are still using the horrid arrow keys to punch in letters like its a 1990s game console.
Could be worse. Could be a Nokia T9 predictive text input!
Idk, those worked great when I was young. \o/
Voice wins by a mile here
i hate talking to the tv or any device
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.
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.
