On Apple filed a group claim because of problems with the keyboard in the Macbook
AT The Federal District Court of the Northern District of California dissatisfied owners of Apple products. People are disappointed in new Macbook and need to reimburse them losses.
AT than the problem
AT the Macbook Pro keyboard and 12-inch Macbook that came out in 2016 and later. It was then that Apple began using the keyboard with mechanism of the " butterfly " type of the second generation. It allows you to make the device more subtle (since the space between the keys decreases and body), and at Apple positioned it as a reliable and comfortable.
But on everything turned out differently: because of the dust, crumbs and other garbage keys begin to stick, after a while the entire keyboard comes out of building. For several years, Macbook owners have been service centers, but or repair helps on time, or repairmen refuse to recognize such problems with keypad warranty case.
For example, one of the plaintiffs told that after repair the keyboard of his laptop broke again, but gadget is no longer was on guarantees. Therefore, the owner had to pay 700 dollars for repeated repair. Another plaintiff does not could be left without a laptop on a week (that's what it took to repair), so I had to buy an external keyboard.
What they want
People are sure that Apple was in the the course of unreliability of the keyboard, but all the same let in manufacture of such laptops. Therefore, plaintiffs demand damages and costs, including replacement of defective parts and devices, and also the cost of the notebooks themselves.
TO In a word, the authors of the petition are more radical, in which describes such a same problem. They require you to recall all MacBook Pro 2016 year. Behind week this petition collected more than 17 thousand signatures.
Source: 9to5mac