The 12-Inch MacBook: Apple’s biggest Flop of the Decade?

Was this the worst Apple Product?

Who remembers the 12-Inch MacBook? The laptop that Apple released back in 2015 that was just simply named “MacBook”. No short word after to distinguish itself. It was just MacBook, and I think it was, ideally, suppose to start a new series of laptops from Apple.

Well, that was very short-lived. Apple released the MacBook in 2015 and officially discontinued it in 2019, giving small updates to the specs in the years in between.

So, why did it flop?

To begin, the initial release of the product did not go so well. While it was really nice to see a much more portable laptop come out from Apple, the laptop had one huge fault. The new scissor mechanism keyboard that they had made to make the device extremely thin was widely unpopular. Majority of customers hated the fact that they were barely getting any feedback, and while it was a similar experience to typing on an iPad, no one wanted that for their laptop. In addition, the keyboard faced many mechanical issues, constantly getting stuck and this lead to customers always having to go to the Apple store in order to get it repaired.

In fact, Apple introduced the scissor mechanism in later version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but quickly switched back to its…