Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.
Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!
@mwichary That (slightly) cursed Fn key has very much been mis-used by all and sundry.
As soon as I started reading this, I was reminded of the "Fctn" key on the TI-99/4A. But there it's just another shift key because TI didn't want to add more keys to the keyboard. So that one is more similar to the Commodore key or the Atari key on their respective home computers. Which is probably why the Apple II had an Apple key... (Now I'm wondering why TI didn't put their own logo on it...)
Marcin Wichary
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