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What are alll of the Apple is too obsessed with thin and light whiners going to do now?

How the heck does Siri not already allow you to set multiple timers.  Baffling.

StrangeDays said:

avon b7 said:

We'll have to wait for a teardown if Apple is not forthcoming on the changes. If this third generation keyboard can be replaced more easily than the previous two generations, and as a result, can't be swapped into earlier models, I think most people would accept it.

If it can fit earlier models but Apple isn't allowing it, I think people will feel rightly petplexed.

Again, you’re making assumptions you’re in no position to make. Apple said the new keyboard is improved for sound and never said reliability. Gruber’s source suggested the problem was bad metal from a previous supplier, and has been remedied. If so, there’s no reason to give customers of an older model a new feature (quieter keyboard) from a newer model. If it was indeed the bad alloy then they get the fixed alloy. 

But Apple was granted a patent for this silicon cover and the patent application specifically mentions keeping out debris, not making the keyboard quieter. Seems like the latter is just a side effect that Apple has chosen to focus on. Anyway if someone is getting their keyboard replaced all they want reassurance on is that it won’t malfunction again (for the same reason). I don’t know why it’s so difficult for Apple to be clear on this.

Btw, I think Apple’s messaging to the Verge was confusing. They could have answered the question in a way that would leave the impression issues have been resolved without admitting anything. The way that statement was worded is probably not the way Phil Schiller would have worded it.

Some of the complaints I’m seeing from people like Marco Arment are ridiculous and disingenuous. Complain about pricing, fine. But expecting Apple to basically revert back to the 2015/2012 design? Marco knows damn good and well Apple isn’t going to abandon a new design only a couple years after introducing it and certainly isn’t going to re-introduce ports that were removed. Also there is no evidence the keyboard issue was because of the butterfly design (John Gruber claims he heard it was due to a specific metal parts supplier issue) so people complaining about that are being disingenuous too. Especially considering most of them hated it to begin with. IMO the only valid complaints would be pricing and the non-TB model not being updated.