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Do we really need the image of the symbol in the hedges? How is that relevant? 24.49.35.99 (talk) 05:05, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
This passage seems to suggest that an official name switch happened at some point:
--69.214.227.51 06:22, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I seem to recall from my childhood, when the school I attended had Apple computers, that the Open Apple and Closed Apple keys had seperate functions. Therefore the teacher had to specify, by saying Open or Closed, which apple key it was that she wanted the students to hold down. To this day I still always say "open apple" instead of just "apple" when referring to key combos for shortcuts. I think that this is a noteworthy addition to the article but I don't want to trust my memory alone. Does anyone else have any knowledge of what I recall? Dismas 08:38, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I have never heard ANYONE call it clover or splat or butterfly or beanie or flower or shamrock. Shamrocks have three heart-shaped leaves anyway. But the article talks about an "official name". Surely the Unicode name is official.... Evertype 12:34, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I've heard "flower", particularly among users with little or no formal computing instruction -- e.g. secretaries at the small college where I used to work. ("Type flower-S to save your file.") The others seem to be idiolect uses. --FOo 02:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, on the Swedish signs it is supposed to represent a castle with four towers. It's not really a clover... --Leo Bolin 22:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
MY G4 is frozen what is the short cut to force quit without shutting computer down?
D.I.
When a non-Apple designed keyboard is present in the Mac OS X environment the operating system tries to map a similar key to the Command key function.
I was under the impression that the Windows, Command, and Meta keys actually all have the same scancode, and that no keyboard detection on the part of OS X was required. Is this not actually the case? User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 04:15, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Do you need a certain font installed to see the command key symbol? Viewing this page with Firefox 2 on Win XP (with the standard fonts as supplied) I see a question mark in several places where I assume the command key symbol is supposed to be. Using Internet Explorer 7 I see a small square instead of the symbol. --Kesfan 20:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
How about including a section showing what key combo to hit in order to insert a Command icon? It's one of the few characters that I don't know how to insert. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wingedbeaver (talk • contribs) 18:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC).
I noticed this particular sentence in the article: "The 'Open Apple' made a return on the MacBook Air, announced on 15 January 2008." I checked the Apple Macbook Air website, and it appears not to have an open apple on any key. I hesitate to change the article as I do not know whether there are multiple versions of the keyboard. I added a citation needed tag to the article for now. --Kainino (talk) 04:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there any advantage to using command over control? Command seems to behave exactly the same way as control does on windows, so what's the control key used for on mac? As far as I can tell, sometimes your get ported programs (e.g. matlab) which use control instead of command. This makes it really confusing because you then have to remember which key to use. So does it actually do anything other than confusing me, adding to the plethora of existing modifiers (my macbook pro has four! five if you include shift) and making copy/paste in terminals slightly easier? 86.132.21.253 (talk) 11:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Even though the Unicode code point number (U+2318) is already mentioned in the lead section, I've added it to The origin of "⌘" to go along with the Unicode character name. Also added updated references to Unicode Standard v6.0. --Thnidu (talk) 17:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
On the IIgs, the apple logo *was* used in the menus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.81.0 (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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