@nikitonsky as a programmer, the place for F-keys, bracket, backslash, tab, and caps lock key deeply annoy me, but I guess I have to adopt now. Like the removal of the headphone jack, this will set a new standard soon.

@nikitonsky Apple: “Because fuck you.”

@nikitonsky OK, what am I missing?

@nikitonsky Is it a joke?

@nikitonsky @NanoRaptor vibes

@nikitonsky this is so much like Jobs' stance on phone keys that it looks real.

I mean, this is a joke, right?

@nikitonsky 🤣😂🤣☠️

@nikitonsky always been a big fan of needing to remember key combinations for print screen, insert and delete on my laptop.

(bought a macbook air in 2013 because they seemed to last longer than other laptops and to be fair to it it's still running happily)

@nikitonsky In unrelated news, Samsung independently comes up with the exact same idea.

@nikitonsky Jokes aside, I feel better that I'm not the only person who doesn't use the right shift key, lol.

@nikitonsky crushing defeat for the "tabs" side of the tab-vs-spaces war

@nikitonsky I ink hey could have one one sep furher: No one uses "T", "G", and "B" anyway, so why no remove hese annoying ones from he op as well and pu hem o he oom?

@nikitonsky @NanoRaptor caps lock, yes please

@nikitonsky this is actually ideal for IRL pair-programming, just need to purchase the $200 upright stand for it.

@nikitonsky honestly still looks marginally less infuriating to type on than some mechanical keyboard enthusiast custom layouts where you have to hold down 3 different keys to produce an exclamation mark

@nikitonsky that must be fake news. If Apple had actually done this, the ESC key would have been moved as well.

@nikitonsky honestly, I think if they persist with this dumb design, I might just end up designing a base that has a button at the front that presses the power button for you. It’s an idea I’d been toying with for my 2018 mini, but I couldn’t figure out a simple way of implementing it, and it wasn’t that bad to squeeze my hand back there to press the power button. Not anymore though, I’ll be a lot more difficult with this design.

@nikitonsky oh come on. If you press that darn button so often, just flip the computer upside down.

ESC, :, w and q stay on the top. Fine with me.

@nikitonsky 😂 Ok. This one is pretty good.

@nikitonsky Oh jeeze... The sad part is that I actually had to double-take before I realized the picture was satirical. It's just... SUCH an apple-y move, and exactly the type of move that would have the apple stans climbing out of the woodwork to defend it. Like the monitor stand. Or the cheese grater caster wheels.

@nikitonsky hilarious but consequential, right?

@nikitonsky With the slow but steady deterioration of keyboard design, we will get there eventually.