If you mean the cost of switching from a QWERTY to non-QWERTY includes retraining. Yeah, that's a switching cost.
The QWERTY typerwriter is often pointed to as an example of an embedded technology that gets adopted and continued long after the reason has disappeared. But there is also the question of very marginal utility. I'm not sure an alphabetical typerwriter would do better for most typists. We'd still need to train folks in touch-typing. While qwerty causes a bit of confusion the first few times, eventually even the hunt-and-peck folks like me pick it up.
switching cost
The QWERTY typerwriter is often pointed to as an example of an embedded technology that gets adopted and continued long after the reason has disappeared. But there is also the question of very marginal utility. I'm not sure an alphabetical typerwriter would do better for most typists. We'd still need to train folks in touch-typing. While qwerty causes a bit of confusion the first few times, eventually even the hunt-and-peck folks like me pick it up.