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The Apple butterfly keyboard, sadly, is designed for people who don't type and don't do most of their work via key entry. It's frustrating to use it for softwar
by wyclif 8y ago
The Apple butterfly keyboard, sadly, is designed for people who don't type and don't do most of their work via key entry. It's frustrating to use it for software engineering, especially if you use vim or emacs to edit code. And because of other key optimizations I'm used to, it's even worse.
For instance, I have the Vimium plugin installed and I use the home row keys to navigate web pages. It's more efficient but clearly I'm asking for trouble by working this way, given the failure rate of the new keyboard.
Apple needs to go back to the drawing board and create an ergonomic keyboard with lots of focus group feedback from software engineers, writers, and content creators, and stop treating the MBP as if it's a consumption device (that's what the iPad is for).