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by DanHulton 1132 days ago
Why, oh why have you gone with the terrible "bar-style" arrow keys instead of t-shaped? Apple similarly made this mistake, and thankfully recanted. It was so miserable to use bar-style arrow keys that I've officially sworn off of any keyboard (or any machine with a keyboard) that has them.
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Can't you convert them into t-shaped keys by simply cutting the left/right arrows in half?
Part of the problem with the bar arrow keys is that the up/down are so small. I wouldn't want to "fix" the problem by making the left/right equally small.
They describe Apple as recanting though, but Apple's arrow keys are still half height.
That seems mechanically unlikely; they're probably attached in the middle.
it's a mathematical argument
very good point ... I'd question the entire design process based only on this flaw