You jest, but honestly I think this does make sense. It seems rather obvious to me in hindsight that the character on screen should match the key pressed, and to get a different character should require an activator such as shift or caps lock.
One of those, "If I wasn't already used to it being the way it is, would I find doing it this way to be better?"
I feels like, while it makes sense, but the “sense” here is sorta nonsense, the way they write the header sorta assume people is incapable of learning and adjust. Even my nephew/niece learn it without issue.
I had to actually check my keyboard to find out myself.
However, when I press the uppercase keys for ASDF a lowercase aoeu shows up on my computers - looking at the key symbols have been useless for me for years.
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.
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.
I imagine this makes perfect sense to people who are not tech savy, which is the primary demographic for selling a laptop that's basically an iPad.
Then again, I know 94-year olds capable of grasping the concept of SHIFT and CAPS LOCK. So yeah, drunk marketing statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
If they really wanted to innovate like this, why not have LED key caps that change from lowercase to uppercase when the shift key is pressed? Much cooler than just lowercase caps printed on the keys by default.
Very cool, and much more expensive than printed keys. Would be neat if they offered one model like that. I still wouldn't buy it but I'd sure talk about how neat it is.
Also the phrasing is so clunky and awkward I had to read it a good three or four times before I worked out what the fuck they were talking about. Initially I thought they were claiming the letters on the keyboard changed between lower and upper case depending on whether shift or caps was depressed. Obviously not, I don’t even know how you’d do that. Written by ‘ai’ perhaps ?
They really are just a large company these days. This probably flew completely under the radar until it was published and someone saw it displayed to them.
Someone suggested that to me because I use Dvorak. Checked it out. I’m not paying over a grand for a keyboard, and when I checked the reviews, once you get past the gimmick, it’s not really a very good keyboard anyway.