Published 20:16 IST, February 11th 2020
Taika Waititi calls Apple MacBook keyboards 'horrendous', netizens can relate
The winner of Best adapted screenplay Oscar and New Zealander director Taika Waititi slammed tech giant Apple for the 'horrendous' keyboards of its Macbooks.
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winner of Best apted screenplay Oscar, Taika Waititi slammed tech giant Apple for 'horrendous' keyboards of its Macbooks. director, while speaking to an international media outlet, said that Apple needs to "fix keyboards" and furr ded that Macbook makes him want to go back to writing on a personal computer. Waititi at Acemy Award show became first artiste of indigeus herit to win an Oscar.
Waititi said, “Apple needs to fix those keyboards. y are impossible to write on. y have gotten worse, makes me want to go back to PCs because PC keyboard, bounceback for your fingers is way better. And hands up who still uses a PC. You kw what I'm talking about, it's a way better keyboard, and those Apple keyboards are horrendous. And especially as computers -- as laptops get newer and newer, here's latest, latest one, latest new iMac, keyboards are worse”.
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Waititi's statement also created a lot of stir on internet. While many requested Apple to look into issue, ors disagreed with him and said that Macbook is 'best' laptop. One user wrote, "He’s right though my 2018 MacBook Pro double s and puts full stops in all over place haha". ar said, "I just dumped my MacBook Pro for a Surface Book last year and boy, am I t looking back. grass is much greener out here".
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director furr even went on to blame multinational company for causing 'some shoulder problems'. He said, “I've got, like, a sort of loose -- I don't kw what you call it over here, this thing here, which is that tendon that goes from, like, forearm down into thumb. You kw what I'm talking about, you guys who are writing”.
He furr ded, "And what happens is you open laptop and you're like this (poses). So laptop -- you just got to fix those keyboards. WGA (Writers Guild Awards) needs to step in and actually do something”.
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Best apted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi won Best apted Screenplay for his film Jojo Rabbit which is a comedy-drama film. movie is based on Christine Leunens' book Caging Skies. Roman Griffin Davis portrays title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a Hitler Youth member who finds out his mor (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in ir attic. He must n question his beliefs while dealing with intervention of his imaginary friend, a fanciful version of olf Hitler (Waititi). film also stars Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, and Sam Rockwell.
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(With PTI inputs)
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20:16 IST, February 11th 2020