IPad - No Excuse for missing Dvorak software keyboard

I've been using Apple products since I bought an original Macintosh in the summer of 1984. Apple is a company that supports the non-conformist. The person who wants to do things a better and different way. Or, so it claims.
I taught myself the Dvorak arrangement twelve or fourteen years ago, when my hands started giving me problems from too much keyboard use. I can remap the QWERTY (pronounced "crappy") keyboard to Dvorak on PCs running DOS, on Macintosh, and on all versions of Windows.
And yet, on the iPad, there is no software keyboard for the Dvorak arrangement. Only QWERTY and two similar arrangements.
Granted, the soft keyboard on the iPad is not ideal for speed no matter what the key arrangement. But having to relearn QWERTY when on the iPad slows me down.
This is a trivial programing assignment Apple. One of your college interns, with a bit of guidance, could pull it off. Why not step up and give us a Dvorak arrangement. Think Different.
I am currently using an iPad for a class I am taking. But when the class is done, it goes back to the school. I would love to buy an iPad (the third generation, coming soon) but cannot bring myself to do so until it supports Dvorak.

This is a user to user forum only in which Apple does not participate .... but hopefully they read these things when you make suggestions here ....
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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