38 Macworld • January 2022

MAC

W

ith 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

And that’s just fine. Jason Snell reports

Apple’s keyboards are

suddenly boring again

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