Apple Gives Up on Its Terrible Butterfly Switch MacBook Keyboards

[Tsing]

It took years of complaints, but Apple is finally replacing its controversial butterfly switch keyboards with a more traditional and proven alternative. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that beginning in 2020, MacBook Pros will feature a scissor keyboard supplied by Sunrex, the world's largest laptop keyboard manufacturer.

The new keyboard will supposedly offer a better typing experience due to longer key travel. Durability has also been improved with the use of glass fiber.

We believe the partially refreshed MacBook Pro models will also adopt a new scissor keyboard in 2020; shipments of MacBook models equipped with a new scissor keyboard will grow 500–700% YoY in 2020. Though the butterfly keyboard is still thinner than the new scissor keyboard, we think most users can't tell the difference. Furthermore, the new scissor keyboard could offer a better user experience and benefit Apple's profits; therefore, we predict that the butterfly keyboard may finally disappear in the long term.

 

[Azrak]

Translation: We finally relented and are slowly switching to a scissor keyboard even though we don't want to and think butterfly keyboards are more Apple-like and we hate to admit when we are wrong, but we can't seem to figure out how to make butterfly designs work as well as scissor designs even after years and multiple revisions. Sucks to be us. Oh, and we are tired of class action lawsuits for defective designs.

 

[Valve1138]

My butterfly keyboard is great.

If you're a slob, you'll have issues with it.