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Because everyone loves brand marketing on their keyboards...

Microsoft would incur far less wrath if they would stop letting their marketing department run their company.

It's hard to buy a TV with a remote control that has no streaming provider buttons. I guess that's where they are getting the idea from.

Microsoft was having these ideas since before being a streaming provider was even possible as a business - see for example the windows key.

And these keys end up not doing anything because the service dies or something.

You’re going to get shocked when you find the Windows key on most keyboards.

Sorry, I assumed the implied word 'more' was obvious to everyone who has used a computer keyboard in the last 30 years.

And an Apple key on a bunch of others.

It hasn't been an "Apple key" since 2010 or so. On all recent machines, it's just labeled as "Command", with the ⌘ symbol.

Ah yes, the well-known U+2318 Place of Interest Sign :D

They've been using that symbol on the Command key for the last 40 years. It's probably safe to call it "well-known" by now.

(Early Apple keyboards didn't have an Apple logo on the command key either! That was added in 1986 on the first ADB keyboard -- it was added for compatibility with the Apple IIgs.)

I think I remember calling it the butterfly key at some point.

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