2016 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards failing twice as frequently as older models

The keyboards were essentially unchanged since the 2012 Retina MacBook Pro and should have failure rates similar to each other.. Apple released the new keyboard with the MacBook and moved the design to the 2016 MacBook Pro. But the near-doubled failure rate of the keyboard in the first year on the 2016 MacBook Pro is a ticking time bomb for users and it doesn't matter why.. . While first-year service calls have gone down with the introduction of the new models at the same time the incidence of keyboard repairs has gone up notably.. Apple has a second-generation MacBook Pro keyboard. Given that the keyboard mechanisms are the same in the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro models we've combined the two models in this look. Not including any Touch Bar failures the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard is failing twice as often in the first year of use as the 2014 or 2015 MacBook Pro models and the 2017 is better but not by a lot...  Read more