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ipad keyboard with left and right arrows
Another nice add-on. I actually have a bluetooth keyboard for the iPad, but I only carry it when I know I will be doing heavy typing. Much more cumbersome that just the basic protective case.
Just out of curiosity, is this Forum always so polite and "friendly?"
I started a thread simply to ask if anyone knew Apple's thought process on excluding this button. A few posters did not seem to understand the question, and a number of the posts were nice efforts to help find a work-around, but more than half of the posts are attacks. Seems a bit unnecessary to me.
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If anyone is curious about this question, I may have found the answer. I went back and looked at the old 83-key keyboard that came with the IBM PC-XT back in the early 1980s, and it DOES NOT include a delete key ... only the backspace. (I had obviously forgotten this, but I WAS in high school at the time).
The Apple II-plus also DID NOT have a delete key.
Of course, back then WYSIWYG was not yet common, and everything basically got typed at the command prompt. Backing up and re-typing a few characters was not a big deal.
IBM (and other PC-type manufacturers) did not add the delete key until the 101-key board, which seems to have become available in the mid-1980s, as DOS software was improving..
Apparently, it was not a matter of Apple removing that feature. They just never ADDED that feature when IBM and its little brothers did so.
I find it interesting. Obviously, many others do not.