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basch on Oct 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBook Pro

I think Apple is prepping to do away with the keyboard entirely. Within a couple years they will release a refined version of this http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/2/12769094/len...

All the keys will be virtual, and they will have haptic feedback. The shallow key travel now is to prepare people, similar to the coke <> new coke conspiracy.

Then they will make the keyboard half of the laptop an ipad. Then they will release two ipads that hinge together. Then they will figure out that ios/macos dichotomy is causing problems and finally go through with some hybridization.

username3 on Oct 27, 2016 [–]

Keys will be raised aluminum with Taptic.

basch on Oct 27, 2016 | [–]

best case scenario is a material that raises when electrified that I can actually push in, and lays flat like a screen when current is removed.

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