I'd rather not belittle anyone for preferences which admittedly, like music choices, are subjective. But I truly loathe the Mac keyboards, and I'll tell you why. It has nothing to do with platform bias.
Mac keyboards are not designed for touch typists like me. There is no contour to the keys, they are flat and too large and make your hand move too far. They are also not sufficiently actuated, as Atwood points out in this post. They're made for people who hunt and peck and mash the keys using their biceps instead of their fingers. Since that's not me, I hate them. They have an "iffy" actuation instead of a decisive one.
They'll take my IBM Model M and Unicomp when they pry them from my cold, dead, fingers.
I'm a touch-typist. (I studied piano in my youth for 12 years, and now on the computer keyboard I can switch back & forth between qwerty and dvorak without much trouble, although I prefer the latter.) I thought that I would hate the Apple keyboards, and for exactly the reasons you mentioned (lack of contour, not sufficiently actuated, too large...) but it didn't turn out that way. My touch-typing wasn't terribly dependent on any of those properties.
Completely disagree. "Hunt and peck and mash the keys using their biceps"? Way to paint anyone with a different opinion as cavemen. ;-)
I used to be in your camp (started with the original Microswitch MIT-AI Lab keyboards decades ago, which are the best mechanical keyboards ever made, bar none), but I've become very fond of the thin Apple keyboards (and Apple laptop keyboard), which I find quite comfortable for fast typing.
The main thing is the short throw and light touch needed to produce letters with less finger movement and strain. (Just the opposite of what you posit with your biceps comment.)
I think you're reading too much into it, I wasn't using hyperbole and certainly wasn't painting hunt-and-peck people as cavemen (or women). I was just pointing out that touch typing uses less of the forearm and more finger movement.
Mac keyboards are not designed for touch typists like me. There is no contour to the keys, they are flat and too large and make your hand move too far. They are also not sufficiently actuated, as Atwood points out in this post. They're made for people who hunt and peck and mash the keys using their biceps instead of their fingers. Since that's not me, I hate them. They have an "iffy" actuation instead of a decisive one.
They'll take my IBM Model M and Unicomp when they pry them from my cold, dead, fingers.