Type on full keyboards much? Probably you avoid it because your keybaord jams, is slow, and the keys sticks. CHINA SCREWED UP ALL USA'S KEYBOARDS. her's how:
* women secretaries in USA used to hit 140 wam even higher, words a minute , on PC keyboards. they cannot anymore. maybe 80? china loves it when usa productivity falls
* a keyboard sloppily shaped plastic keys with spaces in-between keys allows your finger to "fall between the keys" (bad for typing speed), forcing you slow down so that doesn't happen. and they had been made of hard durable high quality smooth plastic not rough "milk container soft plastic"
* CHINA REPLACED THEY KEY MECHANISM WITH SILICON IMPLANTS, silicon mushrooms. they are hard to press down. they do fail. they resist pressing down. why would put something that resists pressing in a keyboard? because your fucking chinese.
* IBM first had springs and sway bars and a tap point and "were clicky". that didn't work well. IBM soon released keyboards which had "metal sliders" on the side-walls which registered the keystroke with no resistance, and a special spring which delicately returned the key back without preventing quick typing or resistance to pressing. A few mfg made special models for secretaries that were too expensive for the PC but appropriate for typists.
* IBM next replaced sway bars with "wide sliding columns" with TEFLON (tm, usa) and or polished steel, these slid up and down effortlessly and would not jam if hit on the side of the key. (remember, well made keyboards don't have gaps that let your finger hit the side edge of the key anyway). they kept the swaybars on two keys, improved a little. THESE WERE THE KEYBOARDS THAT GOT 140+ wam easily. the designs were taken from IBM's selectric electric typewriters: all patented stuffs.
* Taiwan began making copies of the quality IBM PC keyboard. they were maybe $40 $60. IBM'S keyboards were over $120 to replace at the time: AND WORTH IT.
* DURING BILL CLINTON, production suddenly was switched by CHINA to "silicon mushroom backed keys", no spring, and faulty mechanisms which let keys jam. Everyone wrote blogs about hating these and returning them. But soon they were
THE ONLY CHOICE. NO OTHER KIND WERE AVAILABLE. WHICH 'MADE THEM THE MARKET WINNER'. WINNER? People hated them. The competitors simply vanished !!!
People didn't BUY those keyboards they either came free with a cheap PC or were return by pissed off customers that the keyboard resisted being typed upon and had jamming keys.
* china moved to "thin design" which prevents jamming somewhat - it's also bad for typing speed.
* RECENTLY ON EBAY AMAZON china has been advertizing USA old keyboards are "clickly clickly"
(this clicky thing was not true except for early IBM PC keyboards - see the above, IBM only not say: the much higher quality Corvus or apple PCs. note these mocked at clicky keyboards were infact fast typing keyboards despite a little noise)
* CHINA TODAY is telling people their "super thin" keyboards use scissor type mechanical mechanisms. IT ISN'T TRUE. THEY USE THE SAME SILICON IMPLANTS / MUSHROOMS that killed the keyboard market during bill clinton.
* key travel was reduced. the truth is you can't "debounce" keyboard typing errors without keyboard travel. IBM has the patent on PC keyboard "debouncing" (the chip watches your pressing time and corrects mistakenly pressed keys using a wise formula - it did NOT attempt to spell, which computers are terrible at doing, which is why it worked 200wam perfectly)
* keyboard sizes were cut in half (this is ok for desk space saving but not for typists or programmers who type for hours and hours)
* note chinese have added LED to increase usa's power usage and make battery powered re-deploys impossible unless released from china that way (too much energy wasted, 0 ways to replace chips). they said it was for gamers really it's strategic lockouts "going forward"
SO ... SINCE WHEN IS BACK-LIT KEYBOARD (NOTE YOU CANNOT TURN OFF THE BACK-LIGHT FOR USE WITH iPhone LOW POWER) VERY NON-PRODUCTIVE KEYBAORDS
chinese keep talkign smack about american clicky and wasteful-ness
total bullshit
THEY ROBBED AMERICA BIG TIME - THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT SINCE BILL CLINTON