Taika Waititi slams Apple's MacBook Pro keyboards in Oscar speech
Taika Waititi, winner of this year's Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "Jojo Rabbit," says Apple's keyboards make him want to go back to using a PC.
Taika Waititi (source: Variety)
Film director, actor and writer Taika Waititi, says that Apple's keyboards are "horrendous" and that it's become such an issue that the Writers' Guild of America should intervene. He was speaking after receiving the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film "Jojo Rabbit," and was asked what the most pressing concerns for writers are today.
"Apple needs to fix those keyboards, they are impossible to write on [and] they've gotten worse," he told Variety. "It makes me want to go back to PCs. Because PC keyboards, the bounce-back for your fingers is way better. It's a way better keyboard and those Apple keyboards are horrendous."
New Zealander Waititi, who also directed and starred in "Jojo Rabbit," says that even "the latest one" is poor. He refers to that as an iMac but from context probably means the 16-inch MacBook Pro.
He reported that he has RSI, which is known in New Zealand as Occupational Overuse Syndrome or OOS.
"I've got some shoulder problems, I've got OOS," he continued. "And what happens is you open the laptop and you're like this [hunched over]. we've just got to fix those keyboards. The WGA needs to step in and actually do something."
The Writers' Guild of America (West and East) does mandate standard writing terms that include health-related concerns, but it has yet to take on a keyboard manufacturer.
Taika Waititi (source: Variety)
Film director, actor and writer Taika Waititi, says that Apple's keyboards are "horrendous" and that it's become such an issue that the Writers' Guild of America should intervene. He was speaking after receiving the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film "Jojo Rabbit," and was asked what the most pressing concerns for writers are today.
Taika Waititi jokes about what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks with producers: "Apple needs to fix those keyboards. They are impossible to write on. They've gotten worse. It makes me want to go back to PCs" #Oscars pic.twitter.com/vlFTSjCfZm
-- Variety (@Variety)
"Apple needs to fix those keyboards, they are impossible to write on [and] they've gotten worse," he told Variety. "It makes me want to go back to PCs. Because PC keyboards, the bounce-back for your fingers is way better. It's a way better keyboard and those Apple keyboards are horrendous."
New Zealander Waititi, who also directed and starred in "Jojo Rabbit," says that even "the latest one" is poor. He refers to that as an iMac but from context probably means the 16-inch MacBook Pro.
He reported that he has RSI, which is known in New Zealand as Occupational Overuse Syndrome or OOS.
"I've got some shoulder problems, I've got OOS," he continued. "And what happens is you open the laptop and you're like this [hunched over]. we've just got to fix those keyboards. The WGA needs to step in and actually do something."
The Writers' Guild of America (West and East) does mandate standard writing terms that include health-related concerns, but it has yet to take on a keyboard manufacturer.
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I've tried the new 16 inch MacBook Pro in stores, and I I like it much better than the previous generation. I think I would grow to love it.
But for a professional writer though.. I would assume you'd have a comfortable writing desk and keyboard. But today, you probably travel around, have meetings, and write in a lot of places, with no practical space for a keyboard... I can see that.
Solved.
As far as the Touch Bar goes, it's growing on me. It's useful with some apps. Personally, I don't have much need for actual function keys, but can see how it would be bothersome for those who rely on them. I still haven't dug into the settings for it to see if they would make it more useful for my uses.
It richly deserves all the opprobrium it can get.
or you have been taught poorly, like many of us, and use bad hand posture.
both are user responsibility
When competitors were using spillproof keyboards that didn't let anything get under the keys, Apple was simply tweaking the design to make it less noisy and more resistant to to particles causing problems. That's without even getting into repairability side of things.
Apple has offered zero hard data on the problems beyond saying a 'small number' of affected users. That isn't very transparent. Four years is more than long enough to validate that 'small' figure and would go a long way in marketing/PR terms if it were made public.
When you consider the price of the machines the criticism is not simply a case of 'haters'. Once the extension programs expire the repair is not going to be precisely cheap and you will get a replacement with the exact same risks as the one it replaced.
You should see why people aren't happy about sitting on a time bomb because basically that's what it is. The extension program is not limited to a batch of units. Any of them could go south at any time.
Durability could be an issue but I’m loving the feel.
Instead, he picked a topic where (1) he knows what he's talking about and (2) he might actually make a difference. I bet Apple execs pay vastly more attention to something like this than dictators, oil execs, or viruses pay to Brad Pitt et al.
I've yet to try the 16" macbook pro, but have heard good things about it.