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Apple’s keyboards are suddenly boring again

With the removal of the Touch Bar from top-of-the-line MacBook Pro models – and make no mistake, the grim reaper is coming for the 13in MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, too – Apple’s era of experimentation with the keyboard is over. Out with 2015’s ‘butterfly’ keyboard, out with 2016’s Touch Bar, in with the Magic Keyboard and a row of full-height function keys.

For some reason, in the middle of the 2010s, Apple decided it was ready to reinvent how keyboards on laptops work. It was a bad decision that the company has spent years trying to fix. Of all

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