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sledge812 t1_it7p37b wrote

You sure this is real? It looks like a Photoshopped old Apple aluminum keyboard.

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bgkendall t1_it82z06 wrote

No it’s real! This layout is used on the keyboards for the 11″ and smaller iPads.

The UK version is a bit more logical: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4668/as-images.apple.com/is/MQDP3B?wid=2000&hei=2000

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sledge812 t1_it83fkv wrote

I am speechless. Their previous version (for the 2018 iPad Pro 10.5”) wasn’t doing stupid things like that.

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bgkendall t1_it8cxxf wrote

I think that even though the screen got larger, the decrease in bezel size meant that the overall width available for the keyboard was smaller.

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sledge812 t1_it8d9w0 wrote

Right. The difference between the two models is that TouchID got replaced by FaceID so they indeed lost about 1U from the keyboard width.

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bgkendall t1_it8dufd wrote

They probably should have made all three keys ⅔U, or made Backslash the 1U key rather than this abomination!

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