The same reasons the standard typewriter keyboard is QWERTY rather than Dvorak:
= The precedent set by the first to market is powerful. = The influence of advertising upon a populace lacking in discernment and addicted to novelty is deadly. Add to that extortion and bribes and a compromised legal system. The QWERTY system was designed to slow down typists so as to reduce the problem of jamming of keys of a poorly-designed mechanism. Much of the evil in the world is due to the unbridled pursuit of money: For the love of money is the root of all sort of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. - I Timothy 6:10 RLH
