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Share similar sentiments to this petition: Haven’t found the new MacBook Pros satisfying, esp. the keyboard
https://www.change.org/p/apple-apple-recall-macbook-pro-w-defective-keyboard-replace-with-different-working-keyboard Not sure $AAPL cares anymore about making computers – vs phones! Any recommendations for what I should replace my #MacBook with?

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““The failure rate of the keyboard in the first year on the 2016 MacBook Pro is a ticking time bomb for users.”

I’m writing this petition on a Late 2016 13″ MBP keyboard with a defective L key and a defective Shift Key. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
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If you, Apple, want to continue to pretend this isn’t a problem, your head is buried deep in the silicon. “Design is how it works.” These don’t. Everyone who bought this computer bought a Lemon, or at the least, a potential Lemon when one speck of dust gets under the keys. There should be a Lemon Law for laptops.”
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“…ports it’s packing; comparable Windows laptops typically go for less.

But it is well-made, and with the Mac becoming less and less relevant to Apple’s bottom line, the company’s laptop business seems to be focusing exclusively on the high-end.”
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How important the Mac is to $AAPL’s revenue? Not much: now 11% from 86% in ’00. Why MacBook users are irrelevant!
http://www.BusinessInsider.com/apple-mac-new-yearly-revenue-chart-2017-4

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This chart from Statista helps explain why Apple may be so slow to update Mac hardware in recent years, though. Put simply, it’s just not as big a deal anymore: With the iPhone and iPad helping to change the way we use computers, the Mac now makes up just 11% of Apple’s yearly revenue. It is a phone company, first and foremost.
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