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September 17, 2024
I would largely recommend the clicks keyboard case. I've had a pretty good experience with it and most of the issues I've had are either a direct result of it's size, or issues that I'm not sure the Clicks team can resolve themselves.
First, the good. I am not a content creator, but I do a lot of remote system admin work and I got Clicks with the hope that it would be easier for me to use remote tools like iSH Shell, write structured text files or use remote code editors in a pinch. For this, it works exactly as advertised. I get more screen real estate and easier access to keyboard shortcuts I'd otherwise expect.
Now the cons, starting with size. It's not like I'd want a smaller keyboard, so it's hard to truly take this as a fault but it's so long that most magsafe chargers I use with it don't work ideally. It's either long enough that it can't sit on a desk floating charger, too heavy and falls off on my car one, or can't quite fit in the space provided. Usually I just take it out of the case for this.
Second, since I'm mostly using it for remote system admin and lite-coding, the keys that have been included are not ideally suited for me. A dedicated tab and ctrl key would be useful, not either/or. Ctrl is used in many keyboard CLI shortcuts to exit, tab used for many text formats that depend on formatting. That and I'd love dedicated arrow keys, but I don't know what, if anything, I'd trade for that keyboard real estate. But in both cases, I doubt "remote cli work" is a common use case for Clicks and the key's I need are not commonly used in any other workflows so hard to see why they would cater to me. If they produced a unique case for system admin, cool, but doubt the market is big enough for it.
Otherwise, glad I got the keyboard and I'd likely buy another when I upgrade phones. If I had 1 feature request, I'd love it if there was a way to easily surface keyboard commands that are otherwise hidden in 3rd party apps. I have no idea if this is possible programmatically in iOS, it's likely not, but I love finding out that my favorite apps already support useful shortcuts so I can get the most out of my case.
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