Apple settles lawsuit over its reviled 'butterfly' keyboard for $50 million

[Porthos]

Apple settles lawsuit over its reviled 'butterfly' keyboard for $50 million

Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit over the fragile butterfly keyboards in older MacBook models.

www.engadget.com

Apple could soon compensate MacBook owners for their troubles with faulty "butterfly" keyboards. Reuters reports Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it knew about and concealed the unreliable designs of keyboards on MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models released between 2015 and 2019. If a judge approves the preliminary deal, Apple would pay customers who needed repairs in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Washington.



The company won't have to admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement. It will have to continue offering free keyboard repairs for four years after purchase.

 

[sapphirescales]

Yeah, after making 10x that by not immediately issuing a voluntary recall and redesigning them when they realized it was a problem. I'm SO sick and tired of corporations screwing people over or destroying the environment and making huge profits only to be slapped with a fine that's 10% or less of what they made by screwing over their victims.

And yeah, Apple only has to compensate the victims $125 when they charged them $1,000+ for the repair. Of course, this only applies to people who already paid for the repair and become aware of this lawsuit, which Apple will quickly bury. What a load of BS.

 

[Diggs]

Heh! - Was waiting for you to speak up @sapphirescales . I knew this was one of your pet peeves - chuckles......

 

[Markverhyden]

 

[300DDR]

I had my "butterfly" keyboard replaced three times, but Apple always covered the cost.

 

[phaZed]

A bargain for Apple.

 

[300DDR]

Just got a $30 check from apple lawsuit. Assuming it was for this.