{"id":36551,"date":"2022-07-19T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36551"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:54:31","slug":"butterfly-keyboard-lawsuit-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/19\/butterfly-keyboard-lawsuit-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple will pay $50 million to settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit<\/a> over the faulty butterfly keyboards<\/a> that were used in MacBook machines between 2015 and 2019, reports Reuters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit covers only customers in the above-mentioned states, and lawyers are expecting maximum payouts of $395 to customers who replaced multiple keyboards, $125 to people who replaced one keyboard, and $50 to people who replaced key caps. The settlement is preliminary and will need to be approved by the judge overseeing the case.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the particularly frustrating aspects of this lawsuit is the degree of redaction in documents and transcripts. There are filings where entire pages<\/a> are effectively eliminated. That is not unusual, of course, but it is irritating for those of us who want to understand what happened with these keyboards. When the components that were changed between different models are treated as a corporate secret, it is unlikely we may ever know when Apple first found problems and why it took so long to fix them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n