alt Hacker NewsMy 1st comment said Apple's keyboards have keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards have keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. And these keys had the same utility.
bombcar said some Apple keyboards had a delete key which did not delete the character before the cursor and not a key which deleted the character before the cursor.
The 1st page showed Apple's keyboards had keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards had keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. The 2nd page was disordered slop but said Apple keyboards' delete and other keyboards' backspace had the same function. The 3rd page said Apple keyboards had the key bombcar said not and not the key bombcar said they had.
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Just demonstrates the ambiguity and confusion which Apple has created around basic text input with their "innovation" of keyboard design.
Some try to explain this as an effort to save precious space but this doesn't quite add up since they also added a whole row of superfluous and unique "junk" keys as shown in the first link straight from the source.
The Apple confusion started much, MUCH earlier - see https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/backspace-vs-delete-a-topic-on...