LOL, you should watch Gruber's interview with Craig and Phil at WWDC 2016 and revisit that statement.
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Apple Explores Smart Keyboard With Siri, Share, and Emoji Keys
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LOL, you should watch Gruber's interview with Craig and Phil at WWDC 2016 and revisit that statement.
I disagree, it'd be useful for a $169 fabric keyboard that doesn't have function keys and in Apples view, could benefit from additional functionality.
I think the idea behind emoji's have shifted focus away from text. They have been around for quite some time, but More than ever, it's evident it's becoming a wider form Of expedited communication or signaling some form of emotion to the receiver. I personally don't use emoji's hardly ever, but more than ever are they expanding in every facet.
Letters and numbers have been with us for too long. I think it's time to move on.
Book without the letter E: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Excerpt from the book: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/gadsby.htm
Actually the QWERTY keyboard has been around for almost 140 years. It was designed to slow typists down. The keys would get stuck because people could type faster than the mechanical keys could move.
Wrong. Morse code transcribers had no intention of slowing down. Quite the opposite, actually.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-...n-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/
On the bright side, we have a new key for number '10'. Saves us so much time! Good luck typing 0 (zero) though! /s
lol.. no zero... What will i do !
So, the result would be a keys being narrower on iOS to make space for these extra keys that would act like multi-functio keys ?
I wonder when Apple get to a stage when everything on iOS can be controlled by an on screen keyboard,...... That will get me to move away for sure... :| and to make things "better" lets move that to the Mac so no one has to even click Spotlight *everyone can see*
We are all turning lazy (if it hasn't begun already). I'm starting to predict Apple's goal in life is to **** me off ..
So, the result would be a keys being narrower on iOS to make space for these extra keys that would act like multi-functio keys ?
I wonder when Apple get to a stage when everything on iOS can be controlled by an on screen keyboard,...... That will get me to move away for sure... :| and to make things "better" lets move that to the Mac so no one has to even click Spotlight *everyone can see*
We are all turning lazy (if it hasn't begun already). I'm starting to predict Apple's goal in life is to **** me off ..
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[doublepost=1487192637][/doublepost]If there isn't an Escape key in the upper left corner, and a key next to "A" that is (or can be turned into) a Control key, then it isn't really a keyboard, it's just a keyboard-like product.
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?
True story... during my Windows years in my earlier youth... THESE were the ONLY ones I knew!!! I didn't even know CTRL-C/V/X existed
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...c-centric-event.2007964/page-35#post-23758194
Apple is reading these forums guys. Beware
Apple is reading these forums guys. Beware
Unless this is a sign of things to come... a future version of Swift, or some other Apple IDE will use emojis!
Only the new generation will know to do when they get a compiler error like...
Error, line 72:
Value of
should be , , or 
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
I love it...no number pad and EMOJI key...its a teenage dream
My 14" HP Chromebook actually has neither of these. Well, not dedicated keys... The Caps lock key has been replaced with the find app/search button (on the machine, but AFAIK, also works for searching on the web).
However, you can still do caps lock by pressing "Alt + that search button", and do Delete by pressing alt + Delete. I will admit, I've gotten used to that. The tradeoff of removing those (and I'm sure) other dedicated buttons is the keys are nice and large, unlike a typical windows laptop where the keys are naturally smaller in order to cram them all in.
Last but not least, even though this worked out well for a Chromebook, I doubt I'd like to see this in a Mac keyboard. I could certainly say that for a Windows machine.
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Careful! We won't be that far off before we lose the '3' key as well!
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It stops doing that and will lie perfectly flat after like an hour or two of use.
Emojis and watch bands, because that's really all you need. The Mac line of computers be damned! If they do ever update any of the other Macs they will probably sell a special edition all emoji keyboard.
It's an unfortunate inevitability. I can't stand emoji but they are popular with women and children. I don't know a single woman under the age of 40 or child that doesn't use them.
If emoji dominate user numbers, it's something that we have to accept.
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?
Ha, that is interesting. I did not know about those commands.
