You really think people Backspace away old E-mails and files they want to delete (for example)?
I wondered if everyday users noticed the omission. Then I was waiting for help in an Apple store and heard a woman come in and tell a salesperson that she and her daughter were happy with their new MacBooks, except for one thing they hated: the lack of a Delete key; she asked if there was a way to remap a key to be Delete.
Backspace vs. Delete is a non-issue for 99% of consumers because they have those keys.
They probably do. On my newer MacBook Pro, the key says "Delete", even though it's really backspace.
On my desktop, I do most of my email in gmail and mutt, so I've never used "delete" to delete emails. Command-backspace does the same thing as Command-delete in Finder, if you want to delete files that way. I never do.
And I'm quite sure this is the cumbersome method consumer-level Mac users wade through day after day. Even if you have a full-sized keyboard with a Delete key, you're stymied by Apple's bizarre ignorance of its own trash can in Finder. If you select stuff in Finder and press Delete, nothing happens. It should move it to the trash can, which Windows users have managed to handle for decades. But nope; there's not even an OPTION to make it work.
Mac users also submit to needing double the keystrokes they should to delete characters, hitting the right arrow key over and over to get past stuff they want to delete and then Backspacing it away.
I wondered if everyday users noticed the omission. Then I was waiting for help in an Apple store and heard a woman come in and tell a salesperson that she and her daughter were happy with their new MacBooks, except for one thing they hated: the lack of a Delete key; she asked if there was a way to remap a key to be Delete.
Backspace vs. Delete is a non-issue for 99% of consumers because they have those keys.