And this brief struggle for market dominance in 1880s America determines the keyboard layout on today's iPads ... Yet most of us stick with qwerty. The door is no longer locked, but we can ...

Many of us use keyboards all the time — on our computers at work, or typing out a text or email on our phones. But why does the common QWERTY keyboard, named for the first six letters in the top ...

The QWERTY layout was included in the drawing for Sholes' patent application in 1878. See keyboard, AZERTY keyboard and typewriter. QWERTY LAYOUT Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L ; ' Home Row ...

The term QWERTY refers to a specific type of keyboard layout and takes its name from the first six letters of the top row ... "Ghi-jkl" comes from the letters GHJKL. The keys ZXCV give us "Zexcove," ...

Detail of the keyboard of an Apple iBook with the keys manually rearranged in the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout. Credit: ...