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Re:Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC by jbsmsk on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:56AM (#23466223)
The keyboard "fiasco" was fake news. Overblown by the loud minority and with later iterations probably not an issue at all. But it's a stain that couldn't be washed away (they tried with the replacement program, but likely wasn't effective enough).

At worst the keyboard "issue" is just a preference.

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Re:Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC by Hamuko on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:00AM (#23466709)
>At worst the keyboard "issue" is just a preference.

Yeah, I prefer to have my B key registering 100% of the time instead of 80% of the time.

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Re:Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC by FlyingAvatar on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:37AM (#23467019)
What segment do you envision preferring keyboards with keys that randomly fail?

I've had 3 Macs with these keyboards (should have been two, but one died completely and had to be replaced), all of them had this issue to varying degrees. This was not uncommon for the other Mac users at my workplace.

Even if fiasco is an overstatement, the initial denial of the issue I think is the major source of it becoming a media issue.

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