Comment QWERTYUIOP (Score 1) 209
If the first row of letters on your keyboard reads "qwertyuiop" you are using keyboard layout that was specifically designed to be hard to use so as to keep the keys on an early typewriter from getting tangled. Yet for some reason this keyboard layout is now universally accepted and there are probably people willing to argue that it is the best. The reason it is the standard is because it is the standard. Nobody learns the better-but-non-standard keyboard layouts because it puts them at a disadvantage. Back in the early history of keyboards enough people learn to use the QWERTY layout that other manufacturers adopted it to tap into the established market. When everyone got used to it they didn't feel a need to learn another system.
If the Mac is better than the standard it is only marginally so. It is not enough better for the majority of computer users to put themselves at a disadvantage by using a non-standard system. Unix and its offshoots suffer from the same problem. The Mac is only enough better to keep the current users content to remain non-standard.
Window based systems are the accepted standard today because they were the accepted standard yesterday. It has nothing to do with the relative quality of the systems. Without a compelling revolutionary improvement or innovation from the competition Windows and its future progeny will remain the standard. Like the QWERTY keyboard they are here to stay despite the limitations. Apple lost the battle back in the 1980's.
If the Mac is better than the standard it is only marginally so. It is not enough better for the majority of computer users to put themselves at a disadvantage by using a non-standard system. Unix and its offshoots suffer from the same problem. The Mac is only enough better to keep the current users content to remain non-standard.
Window based systems are the accepted standard today because they were the accepted standard yesterday. It has nothing to do with the relative quality of the systems. Without a compelling revolutionary improvement or innovation from the competition Windows and its future progeny will remain the standard. Like the QWERTY keyboard they are here to stay despite the limitations. Apple lost the battle back in the 1980's.
