In an surrounding the alleged talks between Apple and Australian startup Sonder, is today adding its own set of 'people familiar with the plans' to the report. The new article reiterates a 2018 launch window for customizable e-ink keyboards on Apple's MacBook line, which was mentioned in a that began the rumors last week. In response to the increasing amount of rumors surrounding Apple and Sonder, the latter company this week has confirmed that it never met with Apple during Tim Cook's travels in and, suggesting that any talk of Apple's acquisition of Sonder is false.
In a, Sonder CEO Francisco Serra-Martin stated that the by The Guardian - which ignited the story on the back of the Reddit post - 'contains a number of factual errors.' Serra-Martin confirmed that he 'did not meet Tim Cook on Wednesday 12th October 2016,' which The Guardian story said he did, without providing specifics of the meeting and its potential relation to acquisition talks. The Guardian’s article “Apple in talks to acquire Australian startup Sonder” contains a number of factual errors. Sonder founder Francisco Serra-Martins did not meet Tim Cook on Wednesday 12th October 2016, although we would very like the opportunity to in the future. The team at Sonder is pleased with the incredible response from the industry as we continue to present our story. We are not able to comment further on information on any single company or customer. Sonder’s E Ink keyboard provides infinite possibilities right at your fingertips and releases later this year.
The keyboards on Mac notebooks, and now desktops, too, have no number pad. It used to be that notebook keyboards had a numlock key, and you could use the letter keys on the right hand side of the keyboard as a number pad, but that feature seems to have vanished. We aim to provide a service which helps you get more from your software. If you spot that our information is incorrect in any way, please contact us and we will update it accordingly. This website is not in any way connected to YouTube.
With Serra-Martin's direct confirmation of the original story's lack of veracity, it appears that, for now, Apple's plans aren't immediately related to introducing the customizable e-ink technology into MacBooks or Magic Keyboards. Sonder's own e-ink ' is launching later this year for $199. Ridiculous rumor.
Apple would never add this functionality to a keyboard for such a low price.:rolleyes: But in all seriousness, this is an interesting concept, but as the main input option for a computer, would likely seem a little too gimmicky for Apple to try to rock the boat. Can you imagine the rush to class action lawsuits if 2 or 3 of these had errors and someone couldn't change their keys back from Mandarin or emojis? Certainly someone would need to cover those lost wages and the emotional distress.:eek.
Ridiculous rumor. Apple would never add this functionality to a keyboard for such a low price.:rolleyes: But in all seriousness, this is an interesting concept, but as the main input option for a computer, would likely seem a little too gimmicky for Apple to try to rock the boat. Can you imagine the rush to class action lawsuits if 2 or 3 of these had errors and someone couldn't change their keys back from Mandarin or emojis?
Certainly someone would need to cover those lost wages and the emotional distress.:eek: I don´t think Apple is deterred by the risk of class action lawsuits. Americans file these suits already when Federighi brushes his hair the wrong way or if -god-forbid- an Apple employee should decide to tuck their shirt in their pants.
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Length: 2 minutes, 36 seconds To subscribe to the Macworld Video stream via iTunes,. You can also see a complete archive of all our videos on. Subscribe to that channels and you will be notified whenever we post a new video. Or just point your favorite podcast-savvy RSS reader to:. Show transcript Hi, Dan Miller, Editor at Macworld here, and I wanted to talk to you today about the iPad keyboard and seven tricks that I think everyone should know about.
1) First one is tapping and holding to get special characters. If you tap-and-hold on any of the vowel keys and several of the consonants, you’ll get a pop-up from which you can select variations on those characters.
Things like accents and circumflexes. It’s particularly useful if you type in languages other than English; it’s the only way you’ll get many of the characters you need. Similarly, if you tap-and-hold on several of the keys on the numeric keyboard, you can get other special characters. So, for example, you tap-and-hold on the dollar sign, you get a bunch of currency symbols. Tap-and-hold on the period and you get an ellipsis. Tap-and-hold on the question mark or exclamation point and you get the upside-down versions you need in Spanish.
Again, it’s the only way you’re going to get those characters. 2) You can also swipe up on some keys to insert special characters. So if you swipe up on the dash, you get an en dash.
Swipe up on the dollar sign and you get the cents symbol. One thing I like is that this is one way to get smart quotation marks. 3) Double-tap on the spacebar at the end of a sentence, and it’ll insert a period and a space, so you’re ready to begin the next sentence.
4) If you’re in Safari and you want to get to a site that has a top-level domain other than.com, tap-and-hold on the.COM key, and you’ll get a pop-up where you can select.ORG,.EDU, and others. 5) Similarly, if you’re in Mail and you want to add a top-level domain at the end of an email address, tap-and-hold on the period; you can then select the top-level domain that goes at the end of the address.
6) If you’re typing a bunch of letters and you want to insert a number or punctuation mark, open the numeric keyboard and slide your finger to the number you want. Release your finger and you’ll pop right back to the alpha keyboard. 7) Finally, there’s splitting the keyboard and undocking it. Tap-and-hold on that keyboard button in the lower right and select Undock and you can slide the keyboard up and down to different positions on the screen. If you tap-and-hold the keyboard button and select Split, the keyboard will split into two. This is obviously handy if you hold the iPad with two hands and type with your thumbs.
One oddball thing: If you tap next to one of the letters on the inner edges of the split keyboard, you’ll get the letter that would have been there if the keyboard wasn’t split. So, for example, if you tap next to the G, you get an H, and if you tap next to the H, you get a G. It’s an odd thing, but it can be handy. Updated 05/11/12 to correct statement that swiping up on dash key produces em dash; it really produces an en dash.