Re:Apple’s butterfly keyboard failed by prioritizing form ov...
by kabdib on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:51PM
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The day that the new keyboard was released, I walked over to the Apple store and tried it out.
I physically recoiled from it. It reminded me of the Atari 400 keyboard, a cheap membrane keyboard from the 1970s . . . not quite that bad, but still awful.
The Apple store employee who was watching me remarked on my reaction. "This keyboard feels terrible," I said, "Apple is going to lose a lot of money over it." Naturally the employee didn't care about my opinion.
I physically recoiled from it. It reminded me of the Atari 400 keyboard, a cheap membrane keyboard from the 1970s . . . not quite that bad, but still awful.
The Apple store employee who was watching me remarked on my reaction. "This keyboard feels terrible," I said, "Apple is going to lose a lot of money over it." Naturally the employee didn't care about my opinion.
Software engineers, always Cassandras.