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Oh Apple, how could I have ever doubted you?
I'm just pleased as punch about this, but it got me to thinking–what inspired Apple to finally give us unixoids what we want? Could it have been all of those crash report tracebacks coming in with uControl in 'em? If you think about it, providing proper OS support for remapping the modifiers is a win-win. The users get what they want and OS X gets a better reputation for stability since users aren't installing weird hacks. Maybe it would behoove Apple to do some research, find out what the most common hacks are, and build them in as fodder for the “N+1 New Features!!” checklist that accompanies each major OS release.
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I think it’s mostly due to the Mac mini. A switcher plugging his old Windows keyboard into his Mac needs to be able to remap command and option, as by default they’re in the wrong spots on a Windows keyboard. (Option maps to Alt and Command maps to the Windows key, but the correct placement on a Mac keyboard is with command next to the spacebar and option between command and control.