goldenclaw

tht said:

Part of the design process is knowing what is better over what the users think is better. It’s a push-pull, but part of Apple’s magic is doing things outside user desires. Sometimes they really fail, sometimes they really succeed.

The first sentence of your statement sounds exactly like something Blizzard Activision said, which is what they did when users were asking about being able to play a Vanilla/Classic version of the game. "You think you do, but you don't". There is a certain arrogance to thinking you know better than people who use the product every day to extremes. Yes, I really do want a working laptop keyboard and yes I want it to have more normal key travel. How many people needed to complain, and how many repairs did they need to make before they finally changed it?

Blizzard has since announced that Classic has seen the largest subscriber increase in history. I suspect this laptop will sell massively.

Wonderful atmospheric concept game. Support this developer!

slurpy said:

There is nothing wrong with the butterfly design. I've had multiple butterfly KBs with zero issues, as have many other people I know. There isn't a shred of real evidence that they're less reliable. Do you have any? Anecdotally

What? Are you saying the butterfly keyboard repair program is fake news

https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks

Hopefully the lawmakers are not buying the hokey safety argument. As the person above me stated, this is not specifically about consumers performing repairs. It is about repair shops outside of Apple purview performing repairs of Apple products. What Apple and other company's stance is doing is hurting an entire market sector and hurting the ability for electronics repair technicians to find jobs. If there is a 25 cent capacitor dead on my logic board, I'd like someone to know how to diagnose and replace that part for a moderate labor cost rather than have to buy a new computer. Apple continues to foster a consumer throwaway idealogy.

I won't have any interest in this device until Siri sees some major improvements.