https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxmw5/apple-gives-up-on-its-worst-design-mistake-ever-the-butterfly-keyboard > Apple has given up on the butterfly keyboard, a stupid, environmentally disastrous and life-ruining “innovation” that made the last two iterations of the MacBook Pro (and recent models of MacBook and MacBook Air) expensive pieces of garbage. Thus ends a years-long nightmare for both Apple and its customers. > In its place, Apple has announced that its new MacBook Pro will have a “Magic Keyboard” that has scissor keys, like most every laptop keyboard that came before it. “Scissor” and “butterfly” keys refer to the physical mechanism underneath each keycap that register a button press. For years, laptops had scissor switches, which, as my colleague Casey Johnston explained, consist of two crossed pieces of plastic that fold down when pressed.