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 My biggest frustration with the fn key is that I use two different Macs, and the key is different places on each of them. Although it looks like this problem has since been rectified, on my MacBook Pro and my Magic Keyboard ca. 2023, it is at opposite corners of the keyboard!
The only saving grace is that the thing I use it most for (fn+delete=forward delete) has a dedicated key on the Magic Keyboard, so it doesn’t get much use on that keyboard.
Marcin Wichary
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