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2021-01-20, 04:27

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Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
Dunno, every significant advance Apple has made to push the industry forward has been because they 'went too far'. It's how you FORCE innovation, instead of just enabling it. Even missteps and mistakes push the edge further in those cases.
Yes, absolutely, but that's also a tricky mindset because sometimes too far really is too far.

See, for example, the butterfly keyboard. I'm not even sure that was a misstep per se: perhaps it was exactly the right keyboard for the 12-inch MacBook. But it certainly, especially in its earlier unreliable incarnations, was the right choice for the entire Apple laptop line-up (keep in mind desktops have been playing a minor role for a decade and a half now). The vast majority of Macs sold between 2016 and 2020 had… a problematic keyboard.

Other than that, yes, I'm inclined to agree. The 2015 MacBook and 2016 MBP did further drive innovation.
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