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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by computerex on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:30PM (#20569869)
That's not the point. You shouldn't have to map caps lock to escape.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by baddox on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:49PM (#20570732)
There will always be other potential physical keys that aren't on your laptop keyboard. You could just as easily say that you shouldn't have to use modifier keys to trigger Page Down on a Macbook Pro keyboard. Where's my Print Screen SysRq key?
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:47AM (#20573525)
Ok so why isn't the 2012 mbp hated because it doesn't have that key?
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by computerex on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:29AM (#20573842)
2012 MBP has the escape key.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:08PM (#20577220)
It doesn't have print screen / sysreq, why is that OK?
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by computerex on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:10PM (#20578579)
Because those keys are not used nearly as often as escape. And because osx has a different keyboard shortcut for screenshots so the print screen key is largely irrelevant.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:15PM (#20579597)
The reasons you listed are largely why I don't care that the escape key is gone from where it was.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:38PM (#20570337)
Why not, it's better anyway?
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:50PM (#20570419)
Because caps lock is already remapped to ctrl. :p
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by computerex on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:45PM (#20570389)
You are entitled to your opinion. Don't thrust it onto others.
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