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>Gruber has not been shy about bashing Apple’s design decisions with either the keyboards

Oh hell no, he was VERY late to the keyboard issue. The whole Keyboard issue finally broke out because one journalist got fed up with her keyboard failing so many times, and saw so many people had the same problem, she decide to run a new story on it. That was in early 2018 if I remember correctly.




October 2017

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/17/johnston-macboo...

I find these keyboards — specifically, the tales of woe about keys getting stuck or ceasing to work properly — a deeply worrisome sign about Apple’s priorities today.

His initial review of the keyboard before the problems started appearing.

https://daringfireball.net/2016/11/new_touch_bar_equipped_ma...

The keyboard is, for me, a mixed bag, and it’s probably the one thing that many people will like least about these machines. I find less key travel to be less pleasant while typing.

But this article also points out why he didn’t have the problem personally. He famously uses a 20 year old extended mechanical keyboard.

But I’m so far out there on this issue that I use a 20-year-old Apple Extended Keyboard II, with mechanical key switches, at my desk. I’ve never liked any notebook keyboard compared to an actual mechanical keyboard




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