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Re:Apple announces iOS 10 by low_battery on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:07PM (#11897659)
⌥ is not printed on any key on the Mac I am using, and I am sure ^ on top of 6 is not the ^ parent mentioned. I agree with parent, these are ridiculous.
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Re:Apple announces iOS 10 by fred256 on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:17PM (#11897730)
They are on non-US apple keyboards, the US keyboards use the text "alt" and "option" and so on.

I've always wondered why they don't put the symbols on the US keyboards yet use them in the UI anyway.

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Re:Apple announces iOS 10 by riobard on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:30AM (#11899782)
Could be that it's difficult to describe over the phone which keys are alt/option/command/control? "The one with four loops" vs "the one with forking road" would be funny :D
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Re:Apple announces iOS 10 by vsl on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:01AM (#11907995)
I'm typing this on a (2015/2016) non-US keyboard without them.
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Re:Apple announces iOS 10 by 0x0 on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:01PM (#11899468)
It's printed on lots of macbooks? http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/15/apple_macbook_air_11in_mid_...
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