SoRaang t1_it7mo75 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:57 PM

What monster made this

bgkendall t1_it8ea80 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:00 PM

Apple’s hardware design team — I guess they were holding a grudge from giving in on an inverted-T for the arrows instead of full-height left and right (which looks better, but is harder to use in practice).

sledge812 t1_it7p37b wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:13 PM

You sure this is real? It looks like a Photoshopped old Apple aluminum keyboard.

bgkendall t1_it82z06 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:45 PM

No it’s real! This layout is used on the keyboards for the 11″ and smaller iPads.

The UK version is a bit more logical: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4668/as-images.apple.com/is/MQDP3B?wid=2000&hei=2000

sledge812 t1_it83fkv wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:48 PM

I am speechless. Their previous version (for the 2018 iPad Pro 10.5”) wasn’t doing stupid things like that.

bgkendall t1_it8cxxf wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:51 PM

I think that even though the screen got larger, the decrease in bezel size meant that the overall width available for the keyboard was smaller.

sledge812 t1_it8d9w0 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:53 PM

Right. The difference between the two models is that TouchID got replaced by FaceID so they indeed lost about 1U from the keyboard width.

bgkendall t1_it8dufd wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:57 PM

They probably should have made all three keys ⅔U, or made Backslash the 1U key rather than this abomination!

Nepomuk_Pepper t1_it9673f wrote on October 21, 2022 at 9:09 PM

As you can imagine - the German/ISO version is even worse.

[deleted] t1_it9kkg0 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 10:56 PM

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This is confusing

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