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fred256 on June 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple announces iOS 10

They are on non-US apple keyboards, the US keyboards use the text "alt" and "option" and so on.

I've always wondered why they don't put the symbols on the US keyboards yet use them in the UI anyway.

riobard on June 14, 2016 | [–]

Could be that it's difficult to describe over the phone which keys are alt/option/command/control? "The one with four loops" vs "the one with forking road" would be funny :D

vsl on June 15, 2016 | [–]

I'm typing this on a (2015/2016) non-US keyboard without them.

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