I have the Feker Alice 80, and am pondering a second split keyboard. The double B key annoys me.

How are you finding this keyboard? I’ve been wondering about it.

I love it!

Have you noticed your left and right arrow keys are the wrong way round on the Monsgeek? Flagging just in case you haven’t spotted it!

I don’t have any black keyboards, and it wouldn’t really suit my desk (white IKEA!), but I am majorly eyeing up your pure black keyboard. Nice!

(Also, I have a thing about keycaps that offset their characters. Can’t stand it. So black on black keycaps AND the characters are printed center and large? That’s my jam.)

I don’t think your question is so much about the keycaps - plenty of keycap sets are available that include Mac keys. Your question should be which keyboards are compatible with MacOS, because not all are.

For example, I built a Feker Alice but even though it’s advertised as Mac compatible, the software was for Windows, it didn’t connect correctly and I ended up having to flash it on a Windows PC I was able to borrow. It works now but I’ve been unable to customise the keys as I’d intended, and I’ve learnt my lesson about checking Mac compatibility.

I get most my news via the MPU (Mac Power Users) forum. If it’s important/interesting enough, someone will start a thread.

Apple Music, but not for any reason. Just because I use Apple devices and I’ve never given it any thought.

As others have mentioned, I’ve not had an issue with the Apple recommendations, especially when it comes to “stations” - I think it does a good job of recommending similar artists, and I like it (but I’ve not used Spotify so don’t know if they’re better at it, or what better might look like).

Just a reminder, Apple’s Lossless tech doesn’t work over Bluetooth (that’s a Bluetooth limitation not an Apple limitation) so if for example your regular speakers are connected via Bluetooth then Apple’s Lossless isn’t a good reason to move services since you won’t experience it most the time anyway.

I would factor your primary device into your choice. I mostly control music via my iPhone, and the iOS music app is fine for that. Apple Music is… not ideal… on Mac, and if I used that as my primary controller I suspect I’d shop around for a better service. As an example of two baffling things that irritate me:

1. Playlists are listed in a different order on Mac compared to iOS. There is no reason for this except that Apple is careless.
2. Mac Apple Music sometimes throws a tantrum after e.g. a Zoom meeting and will refuse to produce any audio until you’ve closed and reopened the app. It does it with YouTube as well (e.g. you pause music to play a video, but when you unpause the music afterwards it won’t play). It’s erratic and has been reported elsewhere and is annoying.