Apple Will Pay MacBook Owners $50 Million For Making the Worst Keyboard of All Time
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3adbaj/apple-will-pay-macbconsumers-dollar50-million-for-making-the-worst-keyboard-of-all-time
Apple has agreed to pay a total of $50 million to consumers who owned and had to replace a keyboard on a series of MacBooks and MacBook Pros produced between 2015 and 2019, giving at least the semblance of accountability for the environmental and usability disaster that resulted from Apple’s “butterfly” keys—the worst keyboard design ever put into mass production.
The payment is part of a settlement in a four-year-long class action lawsuit. As part of the settlement, Apple did not admit fault (but has since totally redesigned its keyboards). Court documents note that the case involved the review of 1.2 million pages of documents and 38 depositions. As part of the settlement, people who needed multiple keyboard replacements will get up to $300, people who needed one keyboard replacement will get up to $125, and people who only needed key cap replacements will get $50.