I’ve heard apple users defend a lot of stuff about their pre­cious macs over the last sev­eral years, but I never thought I’d hear this. Apple is (rightly) lauded for their work on usabil­ity. In many cases, their soft­ware and hard­ware is sur­pris­ingly elegant.

How­ever, there is, in my opin­ion, a seri­ous prob­lem with their key­boards. All the apple key­boards I’ve seen in the last cou­ple years have had two delete keys. Or rather, one delete key and one “del” key. Now, if you’re like me, you might expect “del” to act like “delete.” Sur­prise! “delete” is actu­ally “back­space.” Accord­ing to one mem­ber in today’s con­ver­sa­tion, there’s noth­ing wrong with this.

How some­one with­out sig­nif­i­cant com­puter expe­ri­ence would know the dis­tinc­tion between “delete” and “del” is beyond me.