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leptonsyesterday at 6:00 AM2 repliesview on HN

>Apple has some of the most brilliant engineers in the industry,

Did they fire the guy who designed the magic mouse? What about the one who designed the iPhone 4 antenna? Are they still working there? The butterfly keyboard? The class action Apple lost over the Macbook 2011 design flaws? Should I go on?


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FabHKyesterday at 6:52 AM

iPhone 4 was a tempest in a teapot. But yeah, the circular mouse and the butterfly keyboard...

Having said that, it seems obvious that there is a tradeoff between repairability, price, and compactness. And Apple offers devices on different points on that triangle.

saagarjhayesterday at 8:31 AM

Yes, they did actually fire the guy who did the iPhone 4 antenna. The butterfly keyboard guy is now working with OpenAI apparently.