MacBook Pro 2016 (2016): did it need fixing?

2016

Apple

Before: MacBook Pro with MagSafe, HDMI, an SD card slot and ordinary keys.
The fix: Went all USB-C, added the thin butterfly keyboard, and replaced the function keys with a Touch Bar.
Then: Butterfly keys could be knocked out by a speck of dust. Apple paid $50 million to settle a class action in 2022. The 2021 MacBook Pro brought back MagSafe, HDMI, the SD slot and function keys.

Took it back

The 2021 models undid nearly all of it.

Your call

More fixes nobody asked for

2012

Microsoft

Before: A Start button and Start menu in the corner of the screen, where they had been since Windows 95.
The fix: Windows 8 removed both and sent people to a full-screen grid of tiles instead.
Then: Windows 8.1 put a Start button back in 2013, but it still opened the tile screen. A real Start menu did not return until Windows 10 in 2015.

Took it back

Start menu back in Windows 10, three years later.

Your call

2021

Tesla

Before: Tesla Model S and Model X with a round steering wheel.
The fix: Made a rectangular, open-topped 'yoke' the standard steering wheel.
Then: In 2023 Tesla started selling a $700 round-wheel retrofit for yoke owners. It reportedly sold out in about a week.

Half took it back

A round wheel became available again in 2023, as an option and a retrofit.

Your call

2011

Netflix

Before: Netflix: DVDs by mail and streaming, one account, one website.
The fix: Split the plans with a price hike, then said DVDs would move to a separate site called Qwikster.
Then: Netflix lost 800,000 US subscribers that quarter. Reed Hastings killed Qwikster on October 10, 2011, about three weeks after announcing it.

Took it back

Qwikster never launched. The price increase stayed.

Your call