16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by dpkonofa on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:45PM (#21528614)

I am both a digital creative professional and a developer/programmer and I can't remember when was the last time I pressed the escape key. If anything, it might have been to exit a full-screen video where the UI had mysteriously disappeared because some crappy website couldn't deal with an ad-blocker.

Programmers and creative professionals don't unilaterally love or need the ESC key like you're suggesting.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by tandav on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#21529191)

For me frequent usecase for ESC is to hide some popup that you opened by accident.

Like "Save As" dialog / rename file / Purchase SublimeText License / etc. In macOS you can hide many types of dialogs with ESC

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by dpkonofa on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:12PM (#21531769)

That's fine but you can still do that without the physical key, can't you? I'm still able to escape out of dialogs like that without needing a physical key.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by reificator on Thursday November 14, 2019 @12:15AM (#21532975)

You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...

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