[mranon99]

It has not increased productivity as a developer at all, if anything it has slightly reduced it because sometimes I'm unsure if I managed to hit the ESC key or not. The most frequent buttons I use on it are volume control and screen-saver. Everything else is a wasted space. The one major issue I have with it is that it provides no physical feedback as compared with physical keys, perhaps if it had haptic feedback I would dislike it slightly less.

[jjallen]

I can see how having to look at the esc key all the time could slow one down. That said, I think I look at all of the other keys -- actually maybe not volume up -- since it's so close to pwr