Comment by krackers
6 months ago
I think Matias is sort of notorious for stuff that looks good in theory, but is plagued by reliability issues they just can't seem to sort out. I didn't know it was possible to mess up a scissor switch keyboard, but apparently Matias found a way to do so.
They've also been trying for 10 years to make a 60% keyboard (see the infamous thread on geekhack). Granted they do seem to refund anyone who wants it, but it's hard to understand why on earth a keyboard would take 10 years to develop.
They're really good at identifying niche products and designing things to fit the target market, but not so good on actually manufacturing them.
> I didn't know it was possible to mess up a scissor switch keyboard, but apparently Matias found a way to do so.
That indeed does seem to be the sentiment, and seems true, but to be fair, Apple also botched their laptop keyboards to the point of class action for years. But the current Macbook Pro keyboard seems fine so far.
Apple was using a novel butterfly keyboard mechanism instead of standard scissor switches during that era. The M1+ MBPs went back to scissor switches.
Oh that's right, I thought the butterfly mechanism was just an Apple rebrand of the same thing that failed horribly