If I may (or if I may not, Mods please delete), but why, pray tell, does Apple include “Alt” on the Option keys, when alt is rarely used in common parlance?

Me thinks that adding the corresponding symbols on the Shift, Escape, & Option key can only be a help to nubees and seniors. Yet those symbols are not present (at least on the extended keyboard that came with my 24”iMac).

In the case of the Command key, we get 2 symbols, yet on the other keys we get only the text. Well, with the exception of the forward delete key. In that case we get both a symbol and text.

Aren’t simple, clear, and consistent hallmarks of design elegance?

Waddya think?


Harv
27" i7 iMac (10.13.6), iPhone Xs Max (12.1)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire