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Apple Explores Smart Keyboard With Siri, Share, and Emoji Keys
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Though I would not mind the touch bar coming to a stand alone keyboard.
Really though all I want is a number pad on the wireless keyboard. how freaking hard can that be? Are they intentionally trying to make productive work more difficult?
Though I would not mind the touch bar coming to a stand alone keyboard.
Really though all I want is a number pad on the wireless keyboard. how freaking hard can that be? Are they intentionally trying to make productive work more difficult?
It's good to see Apple taking the iPad seriously as a professional content emoji creation device 
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Wait until you see the animated emojis of iOS 11!It's good to see Apple taking the iPad seriously as a professionalcontentemoji creation device
Try hanging out with a lefthanded individual. On a regular computer keyboard I use the mouse with my left hand and the CTRL etc keys with my right. For years it pained me to have to use CTRL-X,C and V with my left, taking my hand off the mouse, until the glorious day when I learned that CTRL-Delete, CTRL-Insert, and Shift-Insert are the lefty equivalents.
I'm sorry...what was this thread about again?
Share button: NO FRIGGIN WAY. Hate the idea.
System Find: OK
Emoji button: CUTE but don't replace Caps Lock. Find a new place for it. Look a context sensitive touch bar.
System Find: OK
Emoji button: CUTE but don't replace Caps Lock. Find a new place for it. Look a context sensitive touch bar.
"Apple is rumored to launch a trio of new iPads as early as March, but possibly not until later this year,"
In other words, it's anyones guess..
In other words, it's anyones guess..
What history? The world's top language is written in the logical conclusion to emojis:
Left handed, sure, but I'm right handed and use the right side cmd-option-control keys frequently too. It's just easier to press some key combinations with one hand.
As for a dedicated emoji key? Well, if someone is going to use emojis so much that they need a dedicated key, I probably won't be having a long conversation with them.
If they replaced all the keys with emoji, you'd have a point. It's almost like it's just one key replacing one that's barely used.
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You seem like a really unpleasant person if you judge people by their emoji use.
ohhhhWait until you see the animated emojis of iOS 11!
emmm
geeee
Wait, my Apple Watch already has those, lol, but they're not unicode.
What would be interesting is if you could make your own emoji out of unicode "pieces" that stack and save them to a custom slot. Some unicode emojis work like that already—they combine two emojis to render the new one. I know people like to joke about emojis, but there is some interesting science fiction out there that I've read before (can't remember what) where in the future they have picture based language that can be transmitted wirelessly or projected above their head. This is like a new, somewhat universal language being formed. It's interesting, even if I don't particularly care for it very much being an occasional emoji user.
dont worry guys. The caps and delete keys will be in a dongle for just $49
Apple recently filed a patent application containing drawings of a Smart Keyboard with "Share" and "Emoji" keys, and a key that can be used to both search and invoke Siri, suggesting it may be exploring a new version of the iPad Pro accessory to be sold alongside next-generation models.
The drawings show that pressing the "Share" key would bring up a share sheet on the iPad Pro with options to share through apps such as Facebook, Mail, and Messages. There is no description of how the "Emoji" key would function, but pressing it would presumably bring up the on-screen Emoji keyboard on the iPad Pro.
The current Smart Keyboard already has a globe key in the bottom left corner that can bring up the on-screen Emoji keyboard, but this key is not visualized in the patent drawings. There is a non-existent "Fn" key in its place.
The third key, labeled with a magnifying glass, would serve multiple purposes. A single press, for example, could bring up a search field for searching within apps. A double press could bring up shortcuts for Messages, Photos, Calendar, Camera, Notes, Settings, and other apps. Long-pressing the key would invoke Siri.
Since this is not a design patent, Apple's drawings are not entirely accurate, but rather just basic visualizations. The "Share" key is located where the right-side Command and Option keys would normally be, for example, while the "Emoji" key is included in lieu of Caps Lock, which is an essential key.
Nevertheless, we roughed up a quick mockup of what the new Smart Keyboard could look like based on the same layout of the new keys as Apple's drawings.
Apple is rumored to launch a trio of new iPads as early as March, but possibly not until later this year, including an all-new 10-inch range iPad Pro with an edge-to-edge display. The other models are expected to be updated 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models with faster A10X processors.
A so-called "Smart Keyboard 2" could accompany the new iPads and perhaps the so-called "Apple Pencil 2" rumored to launch this year.
The current Smart Keyboard was released in November 2015 and costs $149 and $169 for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and 12.9-inch iPad Pro respectively. International versions such as British English, Dutch, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, French, and Arabic were released in August 2016.
Article Link: Apple Explores Smart Keyboard With Siri, Share, and Emoji Keys
Is this idea in conjunction with Playskool, Kenner, or Mattel?
Cavemen/women/people (PC)
, used symbols and drawings to communicate and express ideas on walls, rocks, structures. Think of it this was we are coming full circle to the dawning of mankind with emojis 
Not buying it.
Things change with time and the keyboard is due for a make over.
Its been like ...forever.
Our future ....
Rosetta Emoji
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Next up a giant TouchPad for finger and hand paintings. Future looks exciting people. /s
Further evidence that the current Apple culture is shifted far more in consumer devices rather than creation devices.
The future of language and communication, as the education system is on a decline. Just ask Betsy DeVos.
