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There is nothing closed or proprietary about Apple usb keyboards. There are 3rd party options with a command key - you just don’t happen to own one.
by zepto 6y ago
There is nothing closed or proprietary about Apple usb keyboards.
There are 3rd party options with a command key - you just don’t happen to own one.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoSure, there are Apple-certified accessories out there, but you literally have to buy stuff explicitly catered to their hardware for their software to work right. Whereas anyone else can use "literally any keyboard out there", you need an Apple keyboard to work with an Apple device.
- zepto 6y agoThat just isn’t true. You don’t need an Apple certified keyboard. You just need one with the command key mapped correctly. As for ‘explicitly catered’ - the command key was on Apple keyboards before Microsoft added the Windows key, and before Linux even existed. It seems a bit weird to complain about monopolies while at the same time saying every product should work the same way.