{"id":25230,"date":"2019-05-10T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25230"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:33:27","slug":"2019-apple-keyboard-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/2019-apple-keyboard-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Apple Keyboard Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/apple-launches-keyboard-repair-program-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro\/\">MacBook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/unreliable-macbook-pro-keyboards\/\">MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/the-2018-macbook-keyboards-have-the-same-old-problems\/\">MacBook Air<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/08\/sierra-bluetooth-problems-and-the-logitech-k811-keyboard\/\">Magic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/continued-mac-bluetooth-problems\/\">Keyboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/the-magic-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-is-apparently-bendy\/\">Magic Keyboard With Numeric Keypad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mhzhao\/status\/1126919565840199681\">iPad Smart Keyboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These days I mostly use the old USB aluminum keyboard.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"id-2019-apple-keyboard-problems-update-2019-05-13\">Update (2019-05-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j4n0\/status\/1127256218874056704\">Alejandro Ramirez<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j4n0\/status\/1127256218874056704\">\n<p>Not on the blog: Backlit keycaps on Macbook Pro are transparent plastic coated with black UV paint and laser engraved. A big hand hits &#x2318; with the nail, eventually exposing the full brightness of the LED. This wouldn&rsquo;t happen with double-shot keycaps (a few cents more expensive).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienPetrilli\/status\/1127092704679215104\">Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienPetrilli\/status\/1127092704679215104\">\n<p>Same happened to me. It didn&rsquo;t last longer than 2y.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigGrannell\/status\/1127513251145818113\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigGrannell\/status\/1127513251145818113\">\n<p>Even the Magic Keyboards have problems. They are mechanically reliable but not durable with heavy (but standard) use (I&rsquo;m a writer). This looks like I&rsquo;ve gouged the A, S and C keys. Not good enough for something that cost me &pound;100.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nubero\/status\/1127524837516300288\">nubero<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nubero\/status\/1127524837516300288\">\n<p>I bought a couple of wired keyboards and mice after it became clear that they would be discontinued. What a completely silly state of affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook MacBook Pro MacBook Air Magic Keyboard Magic Keyboard With Numeric Keypad iPad Smart Keyboard These days I mostly use the old USB aluminum keyboard. Update (2019-05-13): Alejandro Ramirez: Not on the blog: Backlit keycaps on Macbook Pro are transparent plastic coated with black UV paint and laser engraved. A big hand hits &#x2318; with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-10T20:00:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"a95e2754-8e74-4317-9c15-8d46a7dccd3c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-13T19:33:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqV4nVI50QxecFY1Gp9zNPA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[422,31,145,423,30,1155,1173,100,1609,1490],"class_list":["post-25230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bluetooth","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-14","tag-magic-keyboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25248,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions\/25248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}