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Yeah, it would be really hard to change all the millions of documents written with QWERTY.


It'd still probably be hard to convert thousands of existing computer keyboards to anything else. Every keyboard at every school, office, home, etc.


And it'd be harder still to convert billions of existing people to another layout. Inertia's hard to overcome, even if another keyboard layout or music notation system had ever been convincingly proven superior than the respective dominant ones.




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