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Yet another Apple gripe

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sevenlayermuddle:
The 'official' Apple silver keyboard is pretty, but not particularly nice to use, still I use one for the MAC Mini as, although a windows keyboard will work, some of the keys are subtly different which would annoy me.  When in Rome, do as the Romans and all that.

A couple of days ago I noticed the USB cable, which is unusually thin and fragile, had somehow got physically damaged, a nasty graze and exposed wires leading to intermittent operation.  No problem, I'm fully qualified to wield a soldering iron, so all I had to do was open it up and replace the cable with that from a dead mouse that's been lying around for a while.  Clever, huh?

No.   :wall:  A quick bit of internet research tells me the keyboards are glued together, and not just at the edges, each layer of construction seems to be glued on top of other layers - the whole thing sounds like a kind of 'potted' construction.   They simply cannot be dismantled without destroying them, and a new keyboard is of the order of £40!

For the time being I've settled for a shameful looking spliced repair, all bound up bodged with insulating tape.   Longer term, I'll fit a new USB plug to the short 'stub' of remaining cable, then use a USB extension cable to connect to the MAC.  But what a palaver over a damaged keyboard cable, why is nothing ever easy when fixing/modifying Apple bits!?

asbokid:
Look on the bright side: Apple stock is up 72.47% since January alone.  Due in no small to part to those shoddy keyboards!


cheers, a

kitz:
lol..   Im with you on this 7LM, 

My ipad charger is currently botched together with a bit of tape and an elastic band, because I refuse to pay £30 for a new one of these

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD824ZM/A/lightning-to-30-pin-adapter-02-m?fnode=3c



I wouldnt pay £30 on principal - bearing in mind thats only the lead, and not the full power adapter (another £25),  that has got to be one of the biggest rip offs!! 
£55 for a power adapter and lead, they are having a laugh :no:

No wonder the graph asbo posted looks like it does.

kitz:
PS why is that tiny pin adapter £5 more expensive than the Power adapter to USB?

Its because theres idiots like me who forget that its plugged in, and the connector soon breaks after after its been given a few yanks, so the lead breaks off.   Yep..  its an easy to break part isnt it  >:(

Ronski:
This is one of the reasons why Apple is the richest business in the world with around $100 billion cash in the bank, that's cash not assets,  because they rip everybody off along the way.

Glueing a keyboard together is going to be cheaper than screwing it, and when it breaks because of the low quality cheap cable, they can sell you another.

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