Apple will have to compensate Mac users for a faulty keyboard.
Apple will have to pay financial compensation with a payment of between $50 and $395 to users who had a MacBook with a butterfly keyboard due to some faults that damaged and repaired it. After a year of waiting, the class action was finally approved by a judge.
Apple will financially compensate its users
Apple’s butterfly keyboard debuted with the release of the 12-inch MacBook in 2015. The company with the bitten apple logo has since adapted this mechanism to the rest of its Mac lineup, with MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models hitting the market through 2019.
The butterfly mechanism of the MacBook keyboard caused many problems
MacBook users have started reporting several issues and faults related to the butterfly keyboard. Keys have slipped out of place, broken or even jammed.
Due to this problem, he eventually replaced the butterfly mechanism with a scissor mechanism and even removed the Touch Bar on later MacBook models. As a result, Apple had to face numerous lawsuits all over the United States.
Keyboard keys were easily damaged
Apple offered to provide a completely free repair service for all MacBook users who had a faulty butterfly keyboard. But this solution was not the most practical, since the replaced keyboard would have caused the same problems in the vast majority of cases.
Finally, as reported in 9to5mac, the company agreed to pay $50 million among all affected users, each of whom You will receive financial compensation ranging from $50 to $395. The class action lawsuit was filed in the United States, so for now, only users in that region will be entitled to compensation. What do you think of this controversy around the MacBook keyboard?
