The QWERTY layout is, I grant you, an illogical mess. I'm happy to hear your arguments that Dvorak is the one true way. Or that Colemak is several percent faster. But QWERTY is a standard now. Everyone uses it on their laptops and phones. It is used everywhere. Except, it turns out, streaming services. They [...]

I’ve written a blog post about the most important technological issue of our time - why every streaming service has its own weird keyboard.

  • MacaDaMiAnut@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Quasar@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • max@feddit.nlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.