Enlarge / Cherry’s new MX2A mechanical switches (from left to right): Red, Blue, Brown, Black, Speed Silver, Silent Red. Scharon Harding
For 20 years, Cherry’s patent on mechanical switches made it the only player around. That patent’s expiration around 2014, though, released the floodgates and allowed countless copycats and switches with varying levels of modification to the cross-stem design to pour in. Typically, consumer choice is a good thing, and there are companies making switches that offer much different (sometimes better) experiences than the switches Cherry makes.
But there are many mechanical switches these days that don’t add anything to the market. Some rip off what Cherry
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