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HN should change the title. The actual article title ends with “just the old, good keyboard”. Leaving out the word “good” changes the entire meaning.
by jeffwass 7y ago
HN should change the title. The actual article title ends with “just the old, good keyboard”.
Leaving out the word “good” changes the entire meaning.
- chrisseaton 7y agoOnly if you think there’s something inherently wrong with ‘old’!
- fwn 7y agoI don't think it has anything to do with that. "the old" they are referring to in the article is not the last one but the keyboard technology before that. What they're suggesting is that it was a change in name only (which would be bad) while it's actually a rollback to a different, formerly used technology. (Scissor switches are back.) I think they count on this ambiguity of an unspecific "old" to drive attention.
- jeffwass 7y agoNot at all, it’s a drastic change in meaning in title between original article and HN. Given the huge breadth of complaints against the butterfly keyboard, the title saying that the keyboard of a ‘new’ MacBook is the same as the ‘old’ MacBook suggests keyboard hasn’t changed. But it clearly has, which is the point of the article. The inclusion of a single additional word “good” clarifies the new keyboard matches the old version BEFORE the butterfly keyboard.
- et-al 7y agoDepends on one's reading, right? - same old keyboard (post-2015 butterfly) - old, good keyboard (2015 and older scissor) Regardless, with Ive's departure, we might get some functional hardware again.