New MacBook Pro Announcement Surprising announcement from Apple this week: new MacBook Pro released! Full press release available here. Take a few minutes to glance the press release then come back. Do you notice something weird? I did. All the MacBook Pro are pictured in such a way that we don’t see the keyboard. Why?... Continue Reading →
On MacBook Keyboard Flaws
Ouch, just stop everything and head to this Reddit post: MacBook Pro Keyboard Failures: Why Apples dust excuse is bullshit! [Teardown + Explanations]. Another damaging article for Apple on Apple MacBook keyboard flaws. The MacBook keyboard is over engineered. Plain and simple. The internet is full of stories about this keyboard. And I'm part of... Continue Reading →
Was The MacBook Butterfly Keyboard Over Engineered?
Casey Johnston writing for The Outline: Apple still claims that only a “small percentage” of people experience trouble with their keyboards. But having now heard the idea of a “sensitive” keyboard, I’m not sure I will ever get over it. No one has had to think this hard about keyboards in decades, at least before... Continue Reading →
The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks
From DHH writing for SvN The fact is that many people simply do not contact Apple when their MacBook keyboards fail. They just live with an S key that stutters or a spacebar that intermittently gives double. Or they just start using an external keyboard. Apple never sees these cases, so it never counts in... Continue Reading →
Devastating Story About Apple’s Butterflies
We are in 2019 which is four years after the first appearance of the infamous butterfly keyboard from Apple. With recent MacBook update we are at the third generation of this keyboard. There are countless stories of failures with this design. Apple fucked up big time. And the worst seems to be that they refuse... Continue Reading →
Switching To, Switching From
As an IT guy profoundly passionate about Apple, I can tell you that I'm hearing those stories of people coming to the Mac or the reverse since maybe 1984. And then there are these stories about faulty keyboards since 2016 on the MacBook 12" (anyone buying these?), the MacBook Pro, etc. After a third generation... Continue Reading →