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I'm not saying there were no innovation at all. But 30 years have passed since Model M release, you would expect keybs to change much, much more. Also, Cherry
by cabirum 12y ago
I'm not saying there were no innovation at all. But 30 years have passed since Model M release, you would expect keybs to change much, much more.
Also, Cherry is the only major manufacturer of mechanical switches in mass produced keyboards.
- chao- 12y agoRazer now produces their own switches. Admittedly they are incredibly Cherry-like, so that doesn't address your point about "innovation", which I assume here to mean "variation" or simply product diversity? For that, take a look at the switches produced by Topre Corp: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Topre_switch http://deskthority.net/wiki/Topre_switch
- noamyoungerm 12y ago30 years may have passed since the Model M was released, but typewriters have been in use for much longer. The fundamental structure of a keyboard is not new at all, and as such the mechanisms underlying the highest-quality keyboards can't have changed too much either.