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bgkendall t1_it82z06 wrote

Reply to comment by sledge812 in This is confusing by Jachulczyk

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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