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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by sumedh on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:29PM (#29261410)
> that take enormous amount of redesign and engineering

Then why change something which is not broken? Why put an inferior keyboard when you already have a good keyboard?

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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by thrwn_frthr_awy on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:27PM (#29273471)
Because that's not how these systems work. Did the new keyboard allow for a flatter design to allow for more battery life?

Apple has always tried to improve computing. I've had MacBooks from the nineties and the keyboards on those are large and heavy. Is that where they should have stop with laptop design?

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Re:Apple announces Self Service Repair by sumedh on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:18AM (#29274646)
Did the new keyboard allow for a flatter design to allow for more battery life?

All it did was to increase Apple's repair cost because they had to support repairing these keyboards for many years.

> Apple has always tried to improve computing.

Then why go backwards with a bad keyboard, removing the Escape Key etc. Apple is not a scrappy startup where they don't have a team to test and give feedback.

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