Apple is continuing researching on how one key on the MacBook Pro keyboard could be taken out, and used as a precision mouse.
“Deployable Key Mouse,” is a newly-granted patent, yet Apple must be serious about this idea because it was previously granted a near-identical patent for an application filed in 2020.
That granted patent, and this one — both with the same title — sound less like Apple’s typical futuristic plans, though, and more a throwback to the pre-trackpad days of the 1980s.
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