What should Apple have done in the meantime? No updates whatsoever to the MacBook line? Keep us firmly stuck in 2015 with outdated processors and wireless technology? Literally throw the entirely redesigned MacBook line in the garbage (because the scissor mechanism wouldn't have worked in the new MacBook line's design).
Tech pundits would have been slobbering all over that with 'Apple is Doomed' tattooed across their foreheads. It's possible that Apple went back to the drawing board before 2015 ended. In the years that followed the first butterfly keyboard for the MacBook in 2015, Apple improved the keyboard's reliability over and over again and offered a remarkable repair program to help mitigate any issues that may come up with each new iteration.Īs I said above, it takes a long time to design a new type of keyboard.
Here's what Apple did right despite what some may say.
#EXTERNAL KEYBOARD FOR MACBOOK PRO PRO#
Serenity Caldwell typing on a MacBook Pro (Image credit: Rene Ritchie / iMore) We just want them to because we hold them to a higher standard. Apple gave us what we wanted, the scissor mechanism, but didn't give us a clear and widespread apology (Apple did apologize, it was a little weak) or even acknowledge that it made a mistake.Īpple doesn't have to apologize, just like other companies don't. But it took nearly four years to get to this point, here and now, today. It takes a long time to redesign a keyboard. With this in mind, Apple, most likely, went back to the drawing board right away. We don't know how widespread the issue was, and Apple claims it is a small number, but when I and at least five people I work with directly have the exact same type of issues with a butterfly keyboard (double keystroke or keys not working), I'm going to take that as a sampling of the greater population and estimate that it was a bigger issue than it should have been. We just want them to because we hold them to a higher standard.Īdditionally, the first and second-generation butterfly mechanism keyboards were faulty. When you make a keyboard that a portion of the population hates, you have to reconsider what you've done.Īpple doesn't have to apologize. When you make a keyboard that no one cares about one way or another, you've made a good keyboard. And Apple did something wrong.Īpple made a keyboard design that some people genuinely hated (and it has nothing to do with the keystroke issue) simply because of the design. We feel personally offended when Apple does something wrong. no company is like Facebook) - but we prop Apple up on a pedestal and expect more from the company. We know that Apple is just another giant multi-national corporation like any other - like Microsoft, like Google, like Facebook (OK, not like Facebook. We're not owed an apology, we just want one from Apple because we're hurting.Īpple fans are a special type of person. Some of those mistakes even cause deaths. No company has to apologize for its mistakes. The problem with Apple's reactionġ6-inch MacBook Pro keyboard (Image credit: Rene Ritchie / iMore) We're concerned about another new keyboard design that may end up as bad as, or worse than before. Will Apple tell us 'You're typing wrong' and release a Typing on the MacBook Pro's Magic Keyboard support document?īut remember, we've been burned by Apple making the keyboard "better." Will the Magic Keyboard for MacBook Pro turn out to be the hot mess that the first-generation (and second-generation) butterfly mechanism was? Are we going to discover that that rubber dome can accidentally cause a key to stick in place? Will Apple tell us "You're typing wrong" and release a Typing on the MacBook Pro's Magic Keyboard support document? They made some changes that, hopefully, make for a better user experience, while keeping a trimmer MacBook design. Apple didn't just put back the scissor mechanism of pre-2016 Macbooks and call it a day. Worse than just being annoyed at a new design, is that this is a new design. It's "inspired" by the design of the latter because most people actually do love it.īut, the point is this butterfly or Magic Keyboard, people are going to complain about the design no matter what, simply because it's different. To be clear, the Magic Keyboard on the MacBook Pro is not a one-for-one design of the Magic Keyboard for the Mac. There are some people around the soch meeds water cooler that complain the Mac's Magic Keyboard is "loosey-goosey," that the keys wiggle too much or the travel is too high and wonder whether the MacBook Pro's Magic Keyboard will be the same. The fear with the new keyboard design for some is that it may be worse than before. Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Pad (Image credit: Karen S.
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