The company did not respond to a request for comment. The lawsuit represents purchasers of about 15 million computers, the court documents said.Īpple “vigorously denies liability,” the court documents said. The company has proposed to pay amounts ranging from $50 to $395 to customers who were affected. Customers said the company knew about the defect on these MacBooks Apple offered free repairs to customers with the defective keyboards in 2018 and then phased them out. “MacBook purchasers across the country are eligible to participate.”Īs a result of the agreement, Apple could soon make amends to MacBook users who got repairs on a laptop with a defective butterfly keyboard from 2015-19. Schwartz, a plaintiff, said in a statement. “Plaintiffs are pleased to submit for court approval their $50 million settlement with Apple that would resolve many years of litigation over the MacBook butterfly keyboard,” Grille and Steven A. Grille, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said. Davila still has to approve the proposal, Simon S. How China's growing supply chain constraints are giving Apple's India play a big boost Apple said the agreement did not represent an admission that it was at fault. District Court in the Northern District of California. The typing meltdowns motivated a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018, which led to the settlement filed Monday night after four years of litigation in the San Jose Division of the U.S.
Some said the devices had keys that felt sticky and didn’t respond consistently.
Many customers complained that characters were repeated when pressed or didn’t show up on their screens at all. The butterfly keyboard, a thinner model that aimed to provide more precision, ended up not being as graceful as the flapping wings of the nectar-seeking creature. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)Īpple agreed Monday to pay a $50 million settlement on a class-action lawsuit over so-called butterfly keyboards, a component of some MacBook laptops that left many users fuming in key-smashing frustration over typing failures. Apple proposed a $50 million settlement on July 18, 2022, for defective MacBook keyboards, in response to a class-action lawsuit by customers who sought repairs for the butterfly keyboard, released in certain laptops from 2015 to 2019. A new MacBook Pro model during an unveiling at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Oct.
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