Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start

Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by radicaldreamer on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:20PM (#15538140)

What do people map control to then? The fundamental problem for this era of computing seems to be that people's needs/workflows are fragmenting while devices are converging, becoming more proprietary and one-size-fits-all.

Will there be a backlash to this? Possibly, but if dealing with a shitty keyboard is the cost of getting a high-end machine with great build quality, maybe not. People will come up with more and more workarounds to fix something which wasn't a problem a few years ago.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by saladeen on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:10AM (#15541225)

Let me let you in on a big mac daddy secret sauce:

Map both ctrl and esc to caps lock key: when it's pressed and released on its own, it sends an Esc; when it's used as a modifier key (pressed together with another key), it sends a Ctrl.

http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by ves on Sunday October 29, 2017 @01:22AM (#15578068)

+1000 this is what I use and it's amazing.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by bitexploder on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:47PM (#15538831)

I mean... Dell and PC still have plenty of options. My Pixel has a headphone Jack. My laptop can be upgradeable...

I am not sure I buy the one size fits all argument. That is mostly an Apple thing.

Also, while it's true Apple quality was higher the last few generations are much worse. We have had numerous service issues come up, keyboards now break... I can't see Apple quality being what it once was.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by eloisant on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:18AM (#15540023)

A few days ago my OS and applications were all customized to death, I had huge dotfiles to cater to my specific needs.

But now I decided it's easier to learn the "standard" configuration than to configure every computer I have to touch.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by nicky0 on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:27PM (#15538175)

I map ctrl to ctrl

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by radicaldreamer on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:29PM (#15538184)

lol... but Mac keyboards have small ctrl keys!! :)

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