{"id":9166,"date":"2019-07-05T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T02:51:39","slug":"apple-to-drop-butterfly-keyboards-in-upcoming-macbook-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apple-to-drop-butterfly-keyboards-in-upcoming-macbook-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to drop butterfly keyboards in upcoming MacBook refresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9171\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9171\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124508\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Every MacBook user on the planet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues and its low-travel design has also not been popular with many Mac users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/07\/04\/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro\/\">report published by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a>, Apple will replace its bugbear butterfly switch keyboards with a new scissor switch version beginning later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the MacBook Air, the new keyboard is said to be replaced across the board with it being incorporated into next year&#8217;s early MacBook Pro version also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/3rd-times-a-charm-apple-tries-again-with-a-new-butterfly-keyboard-in-speed-bumped-macbook-pros\/\">The butterfly keyboard has long been a problem for the company<\/a>, which just recently extended its repair program to cover literally any model that&#8217;s ever had one.<\/p>\n<p>Call it coincidence but on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/there-goes-jony-ive\/\">Ive&#8217;s announcement to depart Apple<\/a>, some pundits are taking large leaps of faith in saying the two are linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9175,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}