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Originally Posted by kscherer
I don't think the keyboard is changing.
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It 100% is. Repairing faulty keyboards at no cost for four years comes at a hefty cost
to Apple, and the butterfly keyboard is already more expensive than traditional options. And well-connected sources like Ming-Chi Kuo have already reported details on the new keyboard.
More to the point, no one is going to accept Apple’s claims of “we really listened to our pro users this time, promise!” if they ship a new MacBook Pro built around the current keyboard. That keyboard gets more ink than all the rest of the Mac line and it is uniformly negative. It’s an albatross for the Mac.
Even if the butterfly keyboards weren’t so fragile, it’d be Apple’s New Coke moment, a strategic misstep where they thought their users would grow to accept something that they didn’t want to accept. Throw in the fact that they break, and it’s like if New Coke also made everyone sick.
They’re going to change it.