Re:Apple’s butterfly keyboard failed by prioritizing form ov...
by D13Fd on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:06PM
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Agreed. This is a fluff piece, nothing more.
The author even says that he thought the butterfly keyboards were better for typing -- i.e., for their purpose:
> I find the butterfly switches far crisper and snappier to use than the softer, mushier scissor-switch
His only point seems to be that Apple not did care about reliability, but I find that highly suspect.
It seems to me that Apple's problem was likely insufficient testing. If they had known that the keyboards would break in real-world usage, they wouldn't have shipped them.
The author even says that he thought the butterfly keyboards were better for typing -- i.e., for their purpose:
> I find the butterfly switches far crisper and snappier to use than the softer, mushier scissor-switch
His only point seems to be that Apple not did care about reliability, but I find that highly suspect.
It seems to me that Apple's problem was likely insufficient testing. If they had known that the keyboards would break in real-world usage, they wouldn't have shipped them.