Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will do away with its controversial butterfly mechanism keyboard in future MacBooks, beginning with a refreshed MacBook Air later this year.
In a report obtained by MacRumors, Kuo says Apple will instead use a new keyboard design based on scissor switches, which should provide better key travel and durability than the more failure-prone butterfly keyboard.
Apple’s butterfly keyboards are highly controversial and have been called out as one of the company’s worst design decisions due to their penchant for failure due to small particulates like crumbs or heat issues.
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