One of the most criticized aspects of the MacBook is the keyboard and Apple has an interesting idea in mind: bet on glass keys for greater durability.
While the butterfly keyboard has been giving Apple trouble for the past several years, a recent patent seems to show that those in Cupertino are looking for new avenues for their future keyboards for future iterations of the MacBook.
The keyboards in our computers are the first elements that usually wear out, not only with the typical erasure of the letters but also the sensitivity when pressing them is not the same as at the beginning due to dirt. Now a new Apple patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2019 and discovered now, reveals that Apple is looking for ways to increase keyboard durability.
In this patent, you can see that Apple would be experimenting with transparent glass keys instead of the typical plastic ones. In addition, the key or character would also be printed inside the key itself and not on its surface, in order to avoid wear.
To this, we should add that they would have thought of a method to make all these keys also backlight despite the symbol or the letter itself being printed inside the body.
In any case, we are talking about a patent that was registered in 2019, and we have not seen anything about it in regards to a substantial change in the keyboard of the MacBook.
Of course, betting on a glass keyboard can bring certain advantages but also disadvantages such as its higher price, so this type of proposal requires years of research to finally be a novelty in a commercial product in which millions of dollars are invested.