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Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

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These keyboards are ergonomically awful: an undifferentiated mass of completely flat buttons, with crappy keyswitches. Makes them slow and error prone. You can tell no one involved in the design process spent any time thinking about human hand anatomy. On the upside, production costs should be pretty cheap. People making devices for “professionals” should take inspiration from keyboards produced in the 1970s–80s, whi…

> These keyboards are ergonomically awful: an undifferentiated mass of completely flat buttons, with crappy keyswitches.

You'd think they could splurge a little on keyswitches given that it costs $20k a year to use one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal).

Though it was kinda funny watching the guy in the video hunting-and-pecking on a 80s chiclet keyboard that could've come from a TRS-80.

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

#14

Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

That and allegedly insider information gleaned from them? I never heard much more about those allegations.

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

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post #14

Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

That and allegedly insider information gleaned from them? I never heard much more about those allegations.

Strange, I don't think my firm's subscription came with that feature.

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

#16

Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

I think you might be mixing up your months and years.

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

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Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

What you pay for is not a mere data aggregater, it's practically everything you'll ever need in a single system. It wouldn't cost that much if it was just 'S,' it's something much more valuable.

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

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This keyboard has been out for ages, unless I am missing something here? On a side note, hated my B-unit, always took 5+ lengthy swipes to register.

> This keyboard has been out for ages, unless I am missing something here? Not everyone works in finance and/or is familiar with Bloomberg terminals (like me). I think this is pretty interesting since Bloomberg, unlike most application developers, has taken their UX to the point where they're building application-specific hardware (though I understand a lot of that is basically legacy inertia). Also, programmers seem…

"Also, programmers seem to be far more interested in keyboards as a subject that most people."

They worry about keyboards because it's one of the professions where RSI is common.

http://www.looknohands.me

http://markmcb.com/2014/10/13/severe-hand-rsi-pain-and-recov...

http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php - Stanford professor and creator of TCL

Here are plenty of other stories: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes

Re: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard

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It may get a lot of negative comments but I think it's interesting something like this still exists, a custom piece of terminal hardware, that hasn't just been eaten by some iPad app or web app.

IMHO the reason it hasn't been turned into an app is to justify its price. Psychologically, people will pay more for hardware than software even if it does the exact same thing.
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