Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:22:59 +0100
Andrew J. Hesford wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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This release:
Disables ALT_IS_MODE_SWITCH
I hope you are aware of the fact that this is really a "US vs the rest
of the world" issue?
Maybe, but you have to consider that the majority of Apple customers are
located in the US, and will be using US keyboards. So it's probably
Arguing on the same level of precision, I can also arrive at the
opposite conclusion: 40% of Apple's revenue come from outside of the US,
and inside the US you have a sizable minority of people who regularly
want to write texts containing words like mañana, Juárez, felicità,
rôle, Hauptstraße or naïve. Putting the two together, you may well get a
majority.
better consider this a "majority vs. minority" issue, where making the
minority happy with mode switch would aggravate the majority of users.
What exactly is this aggravation? I haven't yet seen an explanation here.
--
Martin
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