Mansana will have to compensate up to $ 50 million for MacBook Pro owners with a butterfly keyboard who collectively condemned its malfunction after Federal District Judge Edvar Davila in San Jose, Calif., approved the agreement between Apple and consumers, arguing that it is “fair, adequate and reasonable,” reports Reuters.
The Cupertino company is thus should distribute this 50 million dollars to more than 86,000 users who claimed until March that they had a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a butterfly keyboard, that component failed, and/or had to pay for repairs before Apple launched the replacement program.
Depending on the damage users will receive between $50 and $395. This is, in particular, the maximum amount agreed earlier, which fluctuated within 125 dollars. However, this figure did not even come close to the cost of repairing a butterfly keyboard, which was about $300.
The lawsuit, we recall, was initiated by 11 users from different states of the United States, who claimed that Apple did not provide sufficient technical assistance or an adequate service to repair the butterfly keyboard. MacBooks released in 2015 and before 2019. A year ago, lawyers for the plaintiffs reached an agreement with Apple, and a registration system was opened so that affected users could receive a vaccination from the company. All of them will receive compensation in the coming weeks.
Apple released a buggy butterfly keyboard
This keyboard, in particular, stood out for having a short travel of 0.5 mm compared to 1 mm for the scissor keyboard. This one, however, was riddled with bugs and design flaws that made it many keys are stuck or do not respond correctly due to accumulated dust, crumbs, etc.
In 2018, Apple responded to numerous keyboard performance complaints: replacement program. Those users who experienced failures could contact the Apple Store to replace the keyboard with a new one with the same mechanism.
finally an apple decided to completely get rid of the butterfly keyboard and bet, again, on the scissor mechanism. In 2019, the company released the first 16-inch MacBook Pro with 1mm keys, and a few months later updated the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with the same keyboard.
Source: Hiper Textual
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