One of Android's most popular phone makers is building a Mac keyboard - Macworld

Hey, person you ever heard of OnePlus? Well, okay, the emblematic Macworld scholar astir apt has, due to the fact that they thin to beryllium into tech much than astir people. But successful the wide Apple community, it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing that a bulk person not heard of the Android telephone and accessory maker. But we each mightiness beryllium proceeding a small much astir them soon.

That’s due to the fact that OnePlus is collaborating with Keychron connected a mechanical keyboard for the Mac. Not of those annoying “Mac-compatible” keyboards that person a Windows cardinal layout and Mac-compatible bundle drivers. According to OnePlus, this keyboard “is designed to enactment seamlessly” with the Mac with a layout that “matches the MacBook keyboard.” We presume that means it volition person power and bid keys, though OnePlus says it volition besides enactment with Windows and Linux.

The MacBook layout is surely 1 mode to get Mac users interested. Another diagnostic that volition pique involvement is its double-gasket equine design, which OnePlus says makes “typing an enjoyable motion”. Also, the keyboard’s product page states that the keys’ “sound is dampened.” OnePlus doesn’t straight accidental it’s quieter than Apple’s Magic Keyboard, but it seems to beryllium a goal.

And if you request 1 much crushed to cheque retired a Mac keyboard from OnePlus—did we notation that they marque Android phones and accessories?— the keyboard volition person an aluminum assemblage similar Apple’s ain Magic Keyboard. If it’s thing similar Keychron’s different keyboards, that could mean it was a hefty design, which isn’t needfully a atrocious thing. OnePlus besides promises customizable features, specified arsenic hot-swappable switches and open-source firmware.

It sounds similar an absorbing keyboard, and successful general, keyboards are precise subjective to each idiosyncratic erstwhile it comes to usability and preference. Some radical volition work astir these features and get excited, others volition motion with indifference. The 1 question each Mac users person is, tin OnePlus successfully present connected the nuances of the Mac acquisition successful their keyboards? We’ll person to hold and see.

OnePlus is 1 of the astir fashionable Android brands, gathering phones that rival premium handsets from Google and Samsung astatine a importantly little cost. The institution doesn’t accidental however overmuch the keyboard volition cost, but we presume it volition beryllium connected the affordable broadside and apt cheaper than the Magic Keyboard.

The OnePlus keyboard is presently successful improvement (a photograph of the existent keyboard has not yet been revealed), with an authoritative motorboat successful February and vessel dates successful March oregon April, conscionable successful clip for the rumored Mac bonanza astatine Apple’s yearly outpouring event. Coincidence? We’ll person to hold and see.