One thing I don’t understand is why do people think that having a software keyboard arranger is the future and not now?

The point of an open system as opposed to a closed one is that with an open system, it is just that, open. It is not closed for implementing new and ground-breaking features and technologies.

I think another factor that is preventing people from getting one of these open system keyboards, is that they still have the close keyboard mentality. The close system philosophy is once the keyboard is available for sale, then nothing else should be done to enhance the keyboard. Any enhancement or changes would make the user thing that the product they got was incomplete and should not have been released.

With an open system it is the opposite. It is always open for upgrades and changes. So when these open system keyboard manufacturers keep putting out major (not minor) software upgrades and features, persons who are still back in the closed system mentality view that as the initial product being incomplete and in its embryonic stage. When in fact it is the normal M O for the open system keyboards. The possibilities with them are never closed always open for upgrades.