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[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realise the keys on my keyboard are uppercase. Is this really something people worry about? What happens when I want a capital letter, do I need a different Google keyboard?!

I'm sure someone somewhere is happy with themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I have used a keyboard that had uppercase and lowercase on the keys, similar to how the number row looks with its shift-for-punctuation. It was harder to read, so I didn’t like it very much.

On most on screen keyboards, the casing changes as you type for things like the first letter. It’s a good way to indicate that in a UI, but it’s only necessary because the screen keyboard is trying to change the casing for you. All physical keyboards I’ve used type the same thing when you push a button, regardless of the context.