Oscar winner Taika Waititi takes a jab at Apple MacBook keyboards

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Sometimes it's hard to tell whether writer/director Taika Waititi is being serious or not, but there are some important points he raised during his backstage Q&A at the 2020 Oscars. The director of Thor: Ragnarok took home his first Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Jojo Rabbit. When a reporter asked him about what writers should ask for when in talks with producers, Waititi went into a rant about Apple keyboards.

He said, "Apple needs to fix those keyboards. They are impossible to write on—they've gotten worse. It makes me want to go back to PCs. Because PC keyboards, the bounce-back for your fingers is way better. Hands up who still uses a PC? You know what I'm talking about. It's a way better keyboard. And those Apple keyboards are horrendous."

He went on talking about a repetitive stress injury and ended his rant by saying, "We've just got to fix those keyboards. The WGA [Writers' Guild of America] needs to step in and actually do something." You can watch the full clip here.

Apple had recently tried to fix the issue with its keyboard when it rolled out its latest MacBook Pro 16-inch model last year, which has the traditional butterfly-style mechanism. But we aren't sure if Waititi is using the newest MacBook. 

He might be getting his wish soon. Rumour has it; Apple plans to roll out the new butterfly keyboard design to all the MacBooks coming out this year, starting with the successor to the existing 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Source: Fast Company