Airline check-in desks, I think, is their reason for being. A lot of typing done there, 24/7, with customers that are about to miss their flight waiting in lin

Airline check-in desks, I think, is their reason for being. A lot of typing done there, 24/7, with customers that are about to miss their flight waiting in line. If the keyboard goes down, money can be lost. So they use keyboards that don't break. The reliability of the keyboard doesn't matter for software engineers. You just get another $20 one out of the supply closet while you get your next cup of coffee. (I used to be a big Topre keyboard fan and owned quite a few. I didn't buy them for reliability, though, I bought them because I liked them. That's not a good "enterprise" reason, though, which is why they're not standard-issue for software engineers.)