Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

Re:Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Appl... by daljfsdlksjf on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:03PM (#20621377)

>But in the meantime, is a $13 keyboard cover a good idea to fix a $1,300+ machine?

No.

That cost, what, $5 to make and ship? Or, at Apple's scale, $.50? I think it's inexcusable.

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Re:Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Appl... by penagwin on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:48AM (#20626232)

The cost is all in the distribution/packaging - the covers themselves are surely injection molded, pennies if that per cover, and lots of covers fast. (Injection molding tooling costs like 50k+ to setup, obviously not a concern here).

If the cover costs .05$ (which I bet is 5x it's cost) - the rest is all of the packaging/printing/logistics/shipping/etc.

My question is if a solution so cheap is available, why can't they just fix the root issue of the keyboard?

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Re:Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Appl... by millstone on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:15AM (#20622075)

Yes it's inexcusable. But If you've already dropped $1300+, do yourself a favor and drop $13 to spare yourself a couple of weeks of inevitable downtime.

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Re:Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Appl... by daljfsdlksjf on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:59AM (#20673103)

or buy a competing laptop, which is what i did and i believe to be the sane choice

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