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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

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Re: Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

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I remember when I was working on Facebook games, every product manager wanted their new feature to have one-click access from the main game screen. So each new feature created a new wart on the UI. This is that, but for hardware. Let's call it a Thirsty Feature

I love the term "Thirsty Feature". I've seen this happen many a-time and it's always a sign of poor product management :/

Metrics looking dire? Did you ship the wrong product? Do users express little interest in what you have made?

No worries - juice your metrics and secure that promo by forcibly throwing your feature at users' faces in an existentially inescapable way, like an out of control t-shirt cannon!

Re: Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

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post #16

I remember when I was working on Facebook games, every product manager wanted their new feature to have one-click access from the main game screen. So each new feature created a new wart on the UI. This is that, but for hardware. Let's call it a Thirsty Feature

This is the entire Amazon store page for me.

Re: Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

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Honestly, my initial reaction to this was my typical jaded, cynical, anti-MS self, but after consideration - and the key fact that they're replacing a key, not adding one necessitating a new layout - I'm honestly okay with this. does anyone use the menu key (the key that allegedly this will replace)? It's certainly one of the first to go in enthusiast keyboards using non standard 100% layouts, As long as it's not some stupid propreitary implementation and can be remapped to something useful for those of us not interested in a copilot hotkey, I'm fine with this.

Sidenote, what do people do for push to talk, because if I can disable the copilot trigger and just make this a PTT key then that's great, but I suspect a proper PTT button is one those things everyone else has solved and I've just been under a rock.

EDITED for clarity

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