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Re:GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY by notatoad on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:49PM (#12767070)
Cherry is hardly a keyboard company, they make industrial switches, sensors, and control systems. mechanical keyboard switches are just one product.
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Re:GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY by mbreese on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:06AM (#12767126)
It reads to me that ZF is absorbing the industrial side of Cherry and spun out the keyboard/key switch side to a private equity firm (GENUI).

If you like Cherry switches in keyboards, this should probably be seen as a good thing.

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Re:GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY by adrianratnapala on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:05AM (#12767469)
They also make lots of terrible, bog-standard, 20 EUR rubber-dome keyboards too -- but maybe those are not seen outside of Germany.
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Re:GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY by makomk on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:16AM (#12768562)
I've got the UK version of one of their bog-standard rubber dome keyboards and it's decent enough, for a rubber dome keyboard anyway. Think it cost less than the equivalent of 10 EUR too.
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Re:GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY by hypeibole on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:13AM (#12768252)
I've seen a lot of them in Spain and I can confirm those are absolutely terrible
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