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It's absurdly douchy of Apple to not to install the membrane on older MacBooks in for keyboard replacement, due to the design flaw. [1] Fixing a fatal design f

It's absurdly douchy of Apple to not to install the membrane on older MacBooks in for keyboard replacement, due to the design flaw. [1] Fixing a fatal design flaw shouldn't be a unique selling point for the newest models. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577478/apple-replace-macbook-pro-keyboards-third-gen-components https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577478/apple-replace-ma...

nakedrobot2 8y ago
Agreed. But maybe it doesn't fit. Someone will try to install the new keyboard in an older laptop, and then we'll know...
- 8draco8 8y ago
  The chassis are virtually the same, the new MBP is just a speed bump. They could design new keyboard to be backwards compatible with the old mounting points and connectors and simply replace old keyboards with the new ones. There is no new ground breaking features between old and new keyboards apart from that membrane. I think they just hope that after replacing old keyboard with the same ones will be enough to push those units trough warranty period and if keyboard fails after warranty then a lot of people will be pushed towards buying whole new unit. The second reason is that during the recall Apple is able to push out old stock of keyboards, if they would use new design keyboards the old stock would have to go to recycling witch is costly.
slowmovintarget 8y ago
I don't think the worse typing experience (but better reliability) is one of the selling points for the new MBPs. I think 32GB of RAM (finally) on an MBP is.
benologist 8y ago
It's absolutely unethical and they should be ashamed and held accountable. They have something like ~$250,000,000,000 in cash and they are just robbing their customers twice by denying the problem they created and not paying appropriate taxes in their countries either. They've optimized to be incredibly selfish.

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It's absurdly douchy of Apple to not to install the membrane on older MacBooks in for keyboard replacement, due to the design flaw. [1] Fixing a fatal design f

by kristofferR 8y ago

nakedrobot2 8y ago
Agreed. But maybe it doesn't fit. Someone will try to install the new keyboard in an older laptop, and then we'll know...
- 8draco8 8y ago
  The chassis are virtually the same, the new MBP is just a speed bump. They could design new keyboard to be backwards compatible with the old mounting points and connectors and simply replace old keyboards with the new ones. There is no new ground breaking features between old and new keyboards apart from that membrane. I think they just hope that after replacing old keyboard with the same ones will be enough to push those units trough warranty period and if keyboard fails after warranty then a lot of people will be pushed towards buying whole new unit. The second reason is that during the recall Apple is able to push out old stock of keyboards, if they would use new design keyboards the old stock would have to go to recycling witch is costly.
slowmovintarget 8y ago
I don't think the worse typing experience (but better reliability) is one of the selling points for the new MBPs. I think 32GB of RAM (finally) on an MBP is.
benologist 8y ago
It's absolutely unethical and they should be ashamed and held accountable. They have something like ~$250,000,000,000 in cash and they are just robbing their customers twice by denying the problem they created and not paying appropriate taxes in their countries either. They've optimized to be incredibly selfish.