Why haven other alternative keyboards been commercially successful?
The vast majority of alternative keyboards were only incrementally better than the standard QWERTY keyboard and they didnt free you from a desk. For example, some people argue that the Dvorak keyboard only improved a typist’s speed by 10 – 20%. Others refute that assertion. Regardless, the AlphaGrip has the potential to free everyone from a desk and so its competition is not a full size keyboard, but rather a pen stylus, a phone keypad or a miniature keyboard. At your desk, the AlphaGrip is a complement to your keyboard, not necessarily a replacement. The AlphaGrip can increase your text entry speed relative to these handheld input technologies by 200% – 500%. That’s a huge increase in productivity! This is the level of improvement introduced by the typewriter relative to the quill pen in 1867. And, the typewriter (followed by its progeny, the computer keyboard) has been a tremendously successful product. The typewriter increased productive text entry at a desk, the same way the AlphaG
