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New MacBook Air Quietly Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight
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"Meticulous attention to detail?"
A company that has thousands and thousand of employees, meaning there is and has been dedicated teams for user I/O on the software and hardware, and physical design consistency that those teams should specifically deal with this inconsistently sometime in the last 25+ years, doesn't get some pat on the back.
Most likely this was some internal design/software battle about the issue that turned political for decades. Whoever or whatever manager who backed the old design up finally got let go or retired.
A company that has thousands and thousand of employees, meaning there is and has been dedicated teams for user I/O on the software and hardware, and physical design consistency that those teams should specifically deal with this inconsistently sometime in the last 25+ years, doesn't get some pat on the back.
Most likely this was some internal design/software battle about the issue that turned political for decades. Whoever or whatever manager who backed the old design up finally got let go or retired.
Why we cannot customize the colors of the lights in the keyboard !! Imagine in the dark it would be very cool !
Come on Apple, my M2 air is working perfectly. This might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back when it comes to me dropping $1500 on a new Air! 😭🤦♂️😂
Sorry guys I haven't saw this change now I recommend the M4 air... this is a revolutionary change !
I'd probably just buy an M4 Air, take the keycap off the air, and swap it onto your M4 Pro!
Are you not bothering to read the posts? We were talking about the delete and return keys.
The Touch Bar always had the proper key.
Bob, the keycap guy, finally retired, as OP hinted at. The battle has been laid to rest \
Ugh! They moved the backslash key and (even worse) narrowed the Return/Enter key! Is this new? 😬
No the Return key has always been like that for some non-US English keyboards. That's why I always get the US English keyboard, despite not living in the US.
WOW! there's certainly alot of blondes out there who could not read the 3 keys on the keyboard before? Wow! is the millenial society getting that stupid that we need to draw a line?
I can't disagree that the slash icon makes more sense, but I also can't say I had ever noticed or been confused
I never noticed it should be like that lol
Someone cleaded drawer and found old ovedue list ...
Thank God for that, but wasn't there some stupid legal reason why Apple couldn't use a speaker with a line through it? Totally stupid design decision by Apple anyway.
I mean it was quite obvious from day 1 what that button meant when the two right next to it show sound coming out...
But I'm not mad about it either.
But I'm not mad about it either.