Good news for some.
The saga of Apple's terrible butterfly keyboards has taken what will be an exciting turn for some with the news that the tech giant has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit. Cupertino's finest will pay out $50 million to customers afflicted by its eccentric keyboard technology. But don't get your hopes up for a payout just yet.
As we reported at the time, the MacBook butterfly keyboards were notorious for infuriating users and turning what are some of theinto thoroughly unreliable machines. The keyboards took their name from their key switches, which utilised a wing-like hinge instead of the usual scissor switch found in other slimline keyboards.
The big appeal for Apple was the fact that butterfly switches were 40 per cent thinner than scissor switches, enabling it to make its MacBooks slimmer than ever before. The downside was that they were incredibly unreliable . A tiny bit of dirt or dust under a key could cause the butterfly mechanism to jam, resulting in unresponsive or sticky keys.
With the butterfly keyboard installed in the MacBoook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air between 2015 and 2019, this understandably led to a whole lot of unhappy users. And to make matters worse, Apple launched a repair and replacement programme after the complaints started to flood in but ended up replacing a lot of faulty keyboards with fresh butterfly keyboards that then failed in exactly the same way.
Apple first attempted to fix the problem by adding a silicon membrane to the 2018 MacBook Pro, designed to keep dust and other contaminants out, but even these keyboards proved to be fault-prone. The company finally
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