Ding dong, the butterfly keyboard’s dead


This is from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Today, I’m gonna talk about Apple’s butterfly keyboard. More specifically, its demise — something worthy of both mourning and celebration. “Hold on,” I hear you screech, “what the fuck is the butterfly keyboard?” First off, language. You can find a long-form answer to your question here, but the TL;DR is it’s basically an Apple-designed keyboard mechanism that was meant to deliver a lower typing profile and better tapping experience. Thing is — and this is a vital consideration — it…

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