After all, if they were really so good to use, surely some big corporate client eg google would have placed some order for 100000 by now.
“Hey Cherry, remember back 20 years ago when you were still making high-quality keyboards, and people were buying them for large amounts of money? Back when you still had some engineers on staff capable of making new designs for keyboards and switches? Back before your business shifted entirely to POS machines and rubber domes? Yeah, we want you to dredge back up a product that you probably don’t still have the tooling set up to make, and sell us a bunch of them, for much cheaper than you used to sell them back then, because our alternative is $20 Microsoft “ergonomic” rubber dome boards.”
If there is demand and profit opportunity, companies will do it. If logitech can sell its (significantly inferior) stuff at over $100 each and the average Cherry POS keyboard sells at a few hundred $, don't tell me they can't make and sell good quality keyboards at $300 to corporate customers. Clearly the geeks in Apple, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Amazon (whom I consider the alphas of the geek universe) are not geek enough to put in their mass orders. Which is a pity.
If we could convert just one person - Tim Cook or Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos - to using an ergodox Model F with flossed springs and metal casing - he could tell unicomp he wants 100,000 for his employees and we would never have to do anything with custom-builds anymore!
