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Cynical answer: These things are expensive enough without adding another two dozen switches, and besides, Kids These Days grew up using laptops and don't get th
by Cyberdog 3y ago
Cynical answer: These things are expensive enough without adding another two dozen switches, and besides, Kids These Days grew up using laptops and don't get the point of having numpads when the numbers are all already there above the letters.
- airstrike 3y agoFWIW I grew up on the desktop and also don't get the point of having numpads when the numbers are all already there above the letters
- baal80spam 3y agoIt's infinitely faster to enter numbers using a numpad, and some people do that a lot.
- airstrike 3y agothat really depends on the count of numbers you're entering. how often do you type in a long list of numbers? I can enter numbers faster on the number keys than I can on the numpad for most tasks. I've never really needed a numpad in 30 years
- voltaireodactyl 3y agoA huge percentage of people use computers for data entry. Many of them are accountants. Some even predate computers — but not calculators. Having the calculator form factor is critical for folks doing math all day.
- airstrike 3y agoI spent 7 years in Wall Street doing math all day and never used the numpad. Not all of us care about it...
- jgalt212 3y agoFWIW, I grew up using T9 on features phones. I don't get the point of having QWERTY keyboards on smartphones.
- airstrike 3y agoGood for you, but I never claimed nobody preferred T9 phones over QWERTY, unlike the OP who said "kids these days" prefer TKL, which is just inaccurate.