The MacBook Pro's key stick issue is extremely annoying when it happens, but it's easy to remove a key to blow dust out by using a guitar pick to pry on the side nearest the screen:
Don't do this to the space bar! I used the same trick as the video to fix/clean several keys out and had a pretty good feel for what I was doing.
However the stress/weak points on the spacebar are quite different and you're more likely, as I did, to lift the entire butterfly mechanism out. You will not get this back in again. It's $700 to get the thing fixed at Apple but you can buy replacement keys for $100 per shot online.
Apple has been living on their reputation for design for years now, rather than actually producing good designs. The #$&@^ headphone adaptors I constantly attach when I want to use my iPhone and detach when I want to use my MacBook Pro are the obvious case in point. Who really cared that the phone was ever so slightly thinner? And all the times I can't use my headphones at all because I'm in one place and the damn adapter is somewhere else. I have three adapters and it still happens.
When I finally go over to Android, it will be because of Apple's designs, not in spite of them.
How can that be a case in point? Apple has been aggressively removing ports for years. See the floppy drive, non-USB ports in the iMac, CD drive in the MacBook Air, 30 pin connector...
Calling this a "new design ethos" ignores Apple's history. They've had their share of hard-to-use duds in the past, such as the puck mouse. And they have their share of extraordinarily well designed devices today: who would dare say that AirPods are "hard to use?"
One thing that never changes is articles like this.
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However the stress/weak points on the spacebar are quite different and you're more likely, as I did, to lift the entire butterfly mechanism out. You will not get this back in again. It's $700 to get the thing fixed at Apple but you can buy replacement keys for $100 per shot online.
Don't follow YouTube repair videos they are not comprehensive repair guides. Just use AppleCare and make Apple pay for their own mistakes.
When I finally go over to Android, it will be because of Apple's designs, not in spite of them.
One thing that never changes is articles like this.