Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is currently developing new types of more resistant keyboards for its Macs, the American company presenting the technology in a recently granted patent. According to the patent that was filed in 2016 for registration, the Apple company wants to produce new types of keyboards that don't break as easily when chips or other similar debris get under the keys.
Apple would continue to use the "butterfly" technology for the keys of its future keyboards, and this would substantially increase the resistance of the keyboards over time for its laptops. Apple also talks in its patent about the fact that the keyboards could be better protected, including against contact with liquids, which destroy the contact elements.
To protect the keys, Apple explains that the use of new types of seals and better protection for contacts can save users from replacing keyboards too often. Of course, from the plan to the finished product is a long way, but if Apple "sets its mind" to do something, then the chances are high that that thing will become a reality.
"For example, keyboards typically involve a number of moving keys. Liquid ingress around the keys into the keyboard can damage electronics. Residues from such liquids, such as sugar, may corrode or block electrical contacts, prevent key movement by bonding moving particles, and so on. Solid contaminants such as dust, dirt, food crumbs, and the like may lodge under keys, blocking electrical contacts, getting in the way fo key movement, and so on."
Probably some of you already know that the keyboards of the Apple company are not really that resistant to contact with various liquids, or the firmness that penetrates between the keys. The American company is also aware of these problems and wants to solve them, so it remains to be seen when it will finally implement this change for keyboards.
