xxhellfirexx wrote: Why not just revert the keyboard design? It isn't like the key feel was good in the first place due to the short travel. Adding the contamination shield will shorten the travel distance even more.
Why not? The Right Honourable Knight of the British Empire Sir Jony Ive, that's why. Apple's chief designer. Ever since Steve Jobs died, no one's had the balls to tell Ive what to do. Believe me, I get that he misses his old buddy and co-conspirator deeply. The two of them collaborated in Apple's designs, they were each inside one another's minds, as far as product was concerned. Ive won his reputation back in the days when he and his team, never far from Steve, poured out everything from the gumdrop iMac to the iPhone in less than a decade flat. Those were his miracle years. When Steve died, well, Jony didn't lose his talent but he lost his oversight. There's no one he respects enough to tell him what to do, and don't.
I'd love to see Apple form a second design team, without Jony Ive's day to day involvement, for all the hardware he doesn't give a toss about. That would be the Mac! Punditry loves to opine that the desktop and laptop computer has simply reached its end-state, as all innovation has moved on to smaller form factors. Horseshit. Apple just gave up on it, and the others followed, as they always do. There's a world of talent out there who could breathe new life into the Mac (and therefore PC in general). The trouble is Apple just isn't interested any more.
Microsoft could be well placed, mind.
xxhellfirexx wrote: It also reminds me of a story at Xerox PARC…
You don't 'own' a Macbook 2015+, you borrowed one.
Pretty much. Glad I didn't get one. Couldn't afford it then, and I couldn't have afforded all the grief every time the bastard broke down ever since!
