发明苹果电脑和手机的乔布斯,为何却不敢改动已经用了上百年的它
苹果公司的创始人乔布斯,虽然已经过世,但却留给了我们无数天才的创意。从最早的苹果电脑,到风靡全球的苹果音乐播放器iPod,到iPhone,iMac。就是曾经离开苹果公司的一段时间,也创建了皮克斯动画这样的好莱坞动漫巨擎。就是苹果电脑标配的苹果鼠标,乔帮主也要玩出花样,当然至于苹果鼠标好不好用,就众说纷纭了。可一生创造了这么多时尚,流行的电子产品,引领了电子领域消费趋势,被人们称作:活着,就是为了改变世界的乔布斯,却也不敢改动这件已经被人们使用了上百年的产品。
没错,这就是我们每个人都离不开的QWERTY键盘,也就是我们常说的全键盘,它的得名就是来自第一行开头的6个字母是Q、W、E、R、T、Y。要知道最早的QWERTY键盘,起源于144年前的一款打印机,在1874年由发明家克里斯托弗·莱瑟姆·肖尔斯发明,由大名鼎鼎的雷明登武器公司(当时还不叫这名字)生产的Sholes&Glidden打字机。而就是这款广泛普及的打字机把QWERTY键盘的排列方式固定了下来。
而至于为何在当初多种键盘排列方式的竞争中,QWERTY最终会胜出。有京都大学的研究指出,使用QWERTY键位布局,是源于当初打字机最初的商业用途客户,电报运营商的需求进行的改造。因为打字机在用于转录摩尔斯电码信息时,旧的键位布局中有些紧挨的键位是摩尔斯电码中容易混淆的字母。而不管最初的起源如何,QWERTY键盘已经伴随着一代代产品的兴衰,从最初的打字机,到如今的PC、笔记本,走到了现在,可谓是看淡了花开花落,唯有QWERTY永流传。
而到了现如今,就算是语音输入,手写笔,触摸屏等各种新的高科技输入方式不断涌现。可要说输入效率和准确度最高的还是非键盘输入莫属。因此至少目前来说,还看不到其它输入技术能够完全取代键盘的可能性,即便其它技术相比笨重的键盘可能更方便一些。其实QWERTY键盘如此深入人心的原因,一方面是因为每个人都在用它,另一方面又是因为每个人都在用它,所以它无处不在,因此又要求所有人都要学会使用它。所以在出现新的替换成本低,能够快速大范围普及的输入技术之前,QWERTY键盘还没有被取代的可能。
回到开头说的,就算是以乔帮主这样满脑子充满创意,随便一个点子都能创造出流行趋势的设计之王。对于键盘都是无可奈何。要知道对于一台苹果电脑来说,从设计元素上来说,和其它电脑差异最小的,就是QWERTY键盘了。可见就是乔布斯也明白,习惯的力量是无法抗拒的。因此就是苹果也不敢在键盘布局上玩什么花样了。
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