# Will society ever adopt a better keyboard layout?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-society-ever-adopt-a-better-keyboard-layout/517955>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-society-ever-adopt-a-better-keyboard-layout/517955 "2009-11-17T21:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-society-ever-adopt-a-better-keyboard-layout/517955/61 "2009-11-27T12:42:56Z")

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> [@dhkendall](#):
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> Touchscreens (including on iPhones - you can switch your iPhone to Dvorak, but you still aren’t using all 10 fingers on the damn thing, so what’s the point?)

You cannot enable the dvorak keyboard layout on the iPhone without jailbreaking the phone.

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