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by jmcphers 4412 days ago
There may be instances where people stick with something inferior because of inertia or transaction cost, but QWERTY doesn't really deserve to be the poster child for this phenomenon; the often-cited example of market failure in the Dvorak case is not what most folks assume it to be.

Well worth a read (1996): http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors