Comment by thomastjeffery

Whoever is first to mass-produce a cheap rubber-dome split columnar keyboard is going to sell a lot of keyboards, and kick the ergo keyboard revolution into high gear. Just imagine selling 90% of a $349 keyboard.io Model 100 for $20, and it only cost you $3 to make. Throw it on the shelves and watch it sell itself. It's a novelty. It's an accessibility tool. It's the first step into a new hobby. You wouldn't even need to advertise; people would buy it just because it's interesting.

I finally made it into a Micro Center yesterday. There isn't one anywhere near my home state, so I jumped at the opportunity. What did I buy? Two ortholinear keyboards. There is a huge market for these things, and even the geekiest big-box store in the nation only bothers to sell 2. Why? Because nobody wants to spend more than $30 on something they haven't ever tried.