In recent years apple has a number of issues with the courts in several countries, and in one of them the company is being investigated for possible problems with keyboards with butterfly keys on some models macbooks. After several months of case analysis Reuters claims that the US court finally released its final decision, and Apple had to pay $50 million in consumer damages due to a problematic laptop keyboard.

Apple sued for bad keyboard on MacBook

What sparked a consumer class action lawsuit against the manufacturer involved the company’s throttle mechanism, which has been marketed as an innovative design for years. The problem is that this technology had a drawback that Allows the accumulation of dust that interferes with printing over time.

Put in line macbook in 2015 and used until Macbook Pro launched in 2019, laptop consumers from apple this design flaw caused several problems—some had to pay for repairs at specialized manufacturer assistance. The decision to settle the $50 million class action lawsuit was made by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, who called the settlement “fair, proper and reasonable.”

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A Reuters indicates that the process indicated that the manufacturer did not provide sufficient repair or provided some help with butterfly keyboard issues between 2015 and 2019. The newspaper notes that a representative of the manufacturer declined to speak about this case, and the company has also previously denied any malfunctions in the keyboards.

Apple laptops with problematic keyboards:

• Macbook 2015-2017
• macbook pro 2016-2019
• macbook air 2018-2019

In total, more than 86,000 payout claims have been filed in the lawsuit, and people will receive amounts from $50 to $395, with the amount depending on the repair of users’ keyboards.

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Source: Reuters.

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