[ken]

You joke, but I've wondered the same thing. Apple, of all companies, is happy to re-examine (or discard) the status quo. They dropped the headphone jack on many products -- as they said, it's "over 100 years old, used to help quickly exchange in switchboards". Yet their keyboards still look pretty much like a 19th-century Remington.

[IronBacon]

I would bet that if they dropped the staggered rows they would by followed by the rest of the industry in heartbeat.

Instead they put an OLED on it and in a single move they pissed off all the Vim users (or that's what I recall)... ^__^