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The Worst Gadgets We’ve Ever Touched

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I strongly agree with their conclusion about Apple keyboards: "Apple inflicted the butterfly keyboard on millions of customers for years, giving it the dubious distinction of causing the most tangible badness of anything we’ve ever reviewed." I had to quit using Apple laptops for years due to how physically painful that keyboard was for me...

It gets tons of press and seems pretty meme-y to hate. But mine of 3 years has no problems and I actually enjoy typing on it quite throughly. More than an other laptop keyboard actually. I’m sure there are at least dozens out there just like me…

Not sure why you were downvoted – you are likely correct that dozens of people (at least ;-) ) are fine with the butterfly keyboard and have used it for years without incident.

My own butterfly keyboard was replaced twice, with the final version being an "improved" version according to Apple. It has worked OK for 3+ years, with no further problems other than the unpleasantly low key travel and paint wearing off.

For me the trackpad's bad palm rejection was a much bigger issue.

Honestly I really liked the short key travel and the tactile feel of the butterfly keyboards. The best part is that the one on MBP 13 from 2017 lasted me like 2 years until I had to buy a more powerful laptop. The thing is I like to keep my computer quite clean so maybe that gave a boost to its life expectancy

I don't think the Lumia 950 deserves to be on the same list as the BB Playbook.

By the time the Lumia was released, Windows Phone was actually quite useable and snappy. It's the completely empty app ecosystem and the years of head start iOS and Android had that killed it (apps were not portable from the earlier incarnations of WinPhone).

The playbook was just a joke. No emails, no calendar, no apps. Software was incredibly buggy and it felt years behind the iPad. Actually, no, to get the calendar you had to pair it with a blackberry phone if I recall.

I was also surprised to see that on the list as well. The phones were pretty good. I think the biggest loss was actually Continuum, which to this day still seems like the only good example of convergence.

EDIT: Dex is looking alright these days

I kind of miss Windows Phone since it was actually different from the standard iPhone/Android user interface.

I actually loved Windows Phone. I got one because it was the cheapest possible option after my "real" phone broke, and I was surprised at how polished it was. It was such an interesting, opinionated take on a phone interface; I wish it had had a chance to succeed.

Well, at least the article is only mostly likely to send me into an epileptic seizure.

Seems fitting a post on the worst gadgets they’ve ever touched would include equally terrible presentation.

Ahh, I remember when I tried out the Amazon Fire phone - what a disappointment it was. I wonder if (or when) Amazon will try to make another phone.

Given the source of the list, I'm surprised they were able to find a single Apple product to add to it. And even then, it was only half heartedly since they had to mention that it was connected to (in their opinion) a great computer.

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