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For the last four years we've been trying to figure out a mystery

and it's taken us to all sorts of interesting places,

places I never expected to go. It started just south of Market Street in San Francisco

on a spring day in 2015. But four years later in November 2019 the story we'd been following all this time changed.

It was no longer a debate about sound, stability, feel, travel, or any of the other terms we'd

debated all that time.

Just like that, those conversations were over,

and we were left on the cold autumn streets of New York City

with a smoking gun, but no dead body.

This is the story of the death of the butterfly keyboard.

Who killed it?

And why?

Yes, that's all very interesting but well will I be dissatisfied with the butterfly switches

on my computer?

From Real A.F.M. upgrade, the story of technology told week by week.

I'm Jason Snell.

Here's how the story ends.

It's November 2019, and I'm walking into a building in Tribeca in New York City.

You might think that Apple's headquarters in New York City is in the showy glass cube on Fifth Avenue, Apple's retail store. But it's not. It's this non-descript

building down the street from a diner just off-Broadway. Vanity Fair calls it a capacious loft in a Civil War era five-story

former mansion in Lower Manhattan. A reader of the Tribeca Citizen described

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