Still typing

I reconnected with an old friend over keyboards this weekend, and it is still quite fun to introduce keyboards to people. I think it’s something I’ve gotten so deep in, and it’s easy to bring it up to conversation at any time.

It’s also sad to see so many keyboard manufacturers close down. Over the past few years, I’ve made last minute purchases from shops closing down. Keyboard cases, switches, keycaps, everything and anything I could do for a last ditch effort.

But if all the keyboard items we bought really worked well, then you’d just buy one of that item, and that would be it. It’s a bad business model, because then your returning customers would either need to buy something completely new/irrelevant. But if you sold bad items with limited lifespan, then you’d have returning customers to support the long term running of your business.

Sadly, that’s where we are now, where some things are just so mass produced and cheap, and the good quality shops are dying slowly.

I’m still happy to be typing away, with the keyboards I do have. I’m happy to tinker and rebuild the old ones, and I figure that’s where I could just get something to help the older shops survive. But I’m running out of space and hands to keep typing. There’s really only so many keyboards one person should have, and mine already border on artefacts rather than keyboards.

What a weird place in the world I am, to get to see this happen. Tough.