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If there’s no media session available, “play” isn’t an action that makes any sense, so it shouldn’t do anything IMO.
by wk_end 4mo ago
If there’s no media session available, “play” isn’t an action that makes any sense, so it shouldn’t do anything IMO.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoYeah, right? Seems obvious to me. If I press "Backspace" and there is nothing to go back to, or to remove, I expect the key to do nothing. Same for Escape, or Volume Up, or whatever. If it can't do what's expected, it does nothing. Feels like at one point all the people who spent decades building OSes and desktop environment left Apple and Microsoft, and the people left are brand new developers who only been using computers for the last 10 years or something. Or something something executives/management, whatever fits your worldview better.
- ryandrake 4mo agoNo other key on my keyboard opens an application. I don't see why there should be one special key that operates that way.
- okamiueru 4mo agoThe insufferable part is not letting you disable it.
- coldtea 4mo agoThe search key opens the Spotlight panel, and the speech key opens Dictation...
- embedding-shape 4mo agoThe triangle key opens a calculator and the square opens a terminal. What do you mean not everyone has the same keyboard???
- saagarjha 4mo agoMacs generally come with the same keyboard, though.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoMy Mac didn't come with any keyboard at all, so I'm still using my keyboard that has Circle, Triangle, Square and Cross in the top-right for my Mac as well.
- kps 4mo agoProbably gaming metrics. “87% of users used my team's program this month!” Who cares if 87% of those did it unintentionally? That's some other team's problem.
- jimjimjim 4mo agoExactly this. The telemetry stats will bubble up to some level of management and it will show, "after making the play key launch the music app more people are using it". That's it. Explanations won't fit on the slide deck. In fact it probably isn't even that much, it would just be a graph with "line goes up" after the making play launch the music app.
- jonhohle 4mo agoDating Fireball just posted about how broken SwiftUI is for basic things AppKit was doing correctly in the late 90s (undo/redo)[0]. I think peak productivity for desktops was probably hit about 10 years ago. Most things since then are worse, and the best things from macOS (drag and drop everything nearly anywhere, consistent keyboard shortcuts and interfaces, scriptability of everything, etc.) were never copied by other systems. Now systems are being designed to follow Node JS-style development which doesn’t work like a normal thing anywhere and native apps are just as bad as electron apps from a usability perspective… At least they can be vibe coded since Interface Builder is no longer needed? 0 - https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_easy_to_develop_bad_apps https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_eas...
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- kevincox 4mo agoI think playing something when I hit the play button makes a lot of sense. (The headphones auto-play is a bit less obvious than the keyboard key, I would probably want that to do nothing in this case.) The issue IMHO is that this is not configurable. Apple Music may even be a reasonable default (being the built-in music player). But it should provide options for Apple Music, whatever other apps I have installed, or nothing.