That's nothing for Apple. They have released $2000 laptops that don't work well.
We should applaud that. That's how things should work.
You could argue that after three models with butterfly keyboards, it's pretty purposeful. It's not like no one pointed it out to them.
There's 35,000 signatures on a petition to recall the keyboards. There's two class-action lawsuits. There's how many different online writings about the issue?
There definitely isn't the same level of complains on the internet about it.
If my (non-Apple) laptop is anything to go by, the keyboards with that crappy low-rise design have average life expectancy of one year. The 2018 modification will not get clogged with dust until the end of 2019, at which point people will be complaining about it too.
What exactly is wrong with them ?
Apple has extended the warranty on the keyboard to four years, but it's not like they will actually give you a working keyboard design, but rather switch out the keyboard for the same design.
They're also being sued for the keyboard issues.
But those issues were fixed in the 2018 one. Which is why they haven't needed to extend the warranty at all.
Joanna Stern's article was about her 2018 MacBook Air's keyboard, which has the same membrane as the 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard.
So it's no longer your belief that the 2017 model was significantly better than the 2016 version? Or was it significantly better, but still shit? In one or two years will the 2018 version in turn be considered significantly better but still shit?
I won’t be touching the 2018 one until I see reports of people that have had them for over a year. It sounds like based on the new WSJ reporting, the 2018 has problems too though.