Apple's inspirational keyboard design

With the current crop of new Mac Books that is saturating the market these days, much can be said about the innovative and inspirational design that has gone into their hardware. Apple has always been known for their award winning design. And they always seem to be the trend setter with many other manufacturers following in Apple's footsteps.

However the latest crop of keyboards which they have been using in the Mac Books really makes me wish that others won't follow (do you hear me Sony?).

Is this really innovative design? 

Or is Apple really not the trend setter that everyone thinks they are?

Maybe the true style masters were at Radio Shack back in the 1980's...