Hollywood criticism of MacBook keyboards comes with a cross after a funus

On the night from Sunday to Monday, the awards of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, i.e. the Oscars, were handed out. The winning speeches of the artists involved are probably not worth commenting on (at least on this site), but one of them was an exception. After the ceremony, director Taika Waititi talked in one of the interviews that he literally hates the keyboards in MacBooks and that they "almost made him switch to Windows".

The successful screenwriter and director behind, for example, the last Thor or the newly awarded statue Jojo Rabbit took a dig at Apple as part of the answer to a question about the dynamics of the relationship between screenwriters and producers. In response, Waititi mentioned that Apple should completely change the keyboards it installs in its MacBooks, as they cannot be used.

They are said to be getting worse every year and their execution almost led him to switch back to the Windows platform. The comment further shows that he is particularly bothered by their short run and response to pressure. In this case, however, it should be noted that Waitit also mentioned that he suffers from chronic inflammation, which is caused by frequent (and often non-ergonomic) use of computers.

On the one hand, it is good that in connection with this problem, even such publicly known persons are defining themselves in relation to Apple, but on the other hand, the criticism comes rather late. It's an undeniable fact that Apple went wrong with the so-called Butterfly keyboards. Most users know this (some of them, however, cannot praise these keyboards) and Apple is also very well aware of it. It was this keyboard that cost them an incredible amount of effort (through four hardware revisions) and money (recalls in which, in addition to the keyboard itself, the batteries and part of the MacBook chassis are also replaced).

This is an even more significant problem if we take into account the quality of MacBook keyboards before 2015. The unpleasant truth is also that it must have been clear to most users that once Apple got around to deploying these keyboards, the next big change would not happen until with another major product revision as such. However, this is now partially happening, and the future of MacBooks, their keyboards and users' fingers is thus rather positive.

Since last year, Apple has been offering an updated 16″ MacBook Pro with a “new” keyboard, which again uses a classic, albeit modernized, clamping mechanism. However, it wouldn't be Apple if there wasn't a partial justification for the original Butterfly keyboard, saying that the company doesn't plan to completely replace it on all models.

However, it can be expected that within the next year, Apple will implement the latest type of keyboard in both the 13″ (or maybe 14″) MacBook Pro and the Air. An ultra-compact Butterfly keyboard would make real sense only with an ultra-compact model, which was, for example, a 12″ MacBook. However, it has completed its life cycle and the question is whether Apple will resurrect it, for example due to deployment of own APU.

Discussion of the article

[Jirka]

There is no such thing as "with a cross after the funus" is NOT TRUE!!!

I'm already using a MacBook Pro 16, and it still can't be compared with the comfort of the Dell keyboard with Widle (or the MacBook Pro 15 2015).

Problems:
– A small stroke
– The spaces between the keys are too small
– TouchBar sucks (ESC does little to improve it)

I can't comment on the improvement in failure rate yet - only time will tell...