Talk:Switching barriers

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Didn't find a source anywhere for this statement: "Switching costs are a major reason for pursuing order-of-magnitude improvements in costs, efficiencies, and benefits to the consumer. This business strategy has been called Andy Grove's 10x rule." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.30.115.95 (talk) 23:12, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I propose to merge QWERTY effect here since everything in that article is pretty much duplicated in this one. Tocharianne 21:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

If it is merged, may I suggest a sub-heading? The idea of the QWERTY effect is not that it is a barrier to doing something - to use examples from the article, there is nothing stopping humans developing better eyesight, or for individuals to learn a new keyboard layout, but the lack of incentive means that a solution that is "good enough" is favoured by the individual, and hence by the community.

I think the article and the idea themselves are unique and separate, but accept that it may also be more useful to merge the text into a more comprehensive article.

Intelmole 14th March 2007

I'm not convinced that this article is the right place for the QWERTY effect. I'd say 'switching cost' and the QWERTY example are different topics, in my eyes (looking at "switching cost" from a marketing angle).

Threemonkeydust 27th March 2007

Metric system
I'd love to see an additional section discussing a U.S. transition to the metric system in relation to switching barriers, in the same vein as the QWERTY example, IMHO.71.236.253.188 (talk) 03:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

"QWERTY effect" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect QWERTY effect. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 October 10 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. CycloneYoris talk! 02:17, 10 October 2021 (UTC)