As I mentioned [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322875), negative reviews (especially to brand new te

As I mentioned [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322875), negative reviews (especially to brand new tech) tend to get much much more traction, because the ones that are currently satisfied to the machine have no reason to 'whine'. Read and compare the comments of this article and other news about the butterfly switches/keyboards. There are practically none comments about the butterfly's advantages. In this page, I see 4~5 comments about how butterflies are better (out of 27) even though this was submitted to 1 hour ago. [0] Considering this is HN (which likes bashing Apple) and that this is an issue more about reliability than the butterfly keyboard itself, and that the title really doesn't indicate the loss of the butterfly switches, it's a pretty high value (IMHO). I have yet to found anyone to complain while using the butterfly keyboards so IMO the criticism given to Apple with the butterfly switches are exaggerated. The butterflies are innovative brand new switches, it's pretty reasonable for Apple to fail to predict these long-term failures. I was expecting 2018-style fixes where the fixes don't reduce the advantages of the switches; however I'm suspicious if the scissor based switches can retain low-pitch & stable keys. When SJ did things, SJ wasn't worried about how others would say about new things. (To be fair, there were less people complaining as the market was much smaller before.) As a result, the (iterated and polished) end-results were pretty good, and people got to use the polished result. I get to get worried about Apple when seeing these articles lately, as it looks like Apple has no more ideas and merely applying feedback to products. I hope, (as a customer that prefers butterfly switches vastly over to more traditional switches or mechanical switches) 2019 & 2020 MBPs get a permanently fixed, better quality butterfly switches that can mitigate all customer dissatisfaction. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353617