Sometimes Apple components just aren’t what the company – or its legal department – would like them to be. A class action lawsuit involving customers in seven states, including California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Washington. The settled lawsuit has Apple paying out $50 million to plaintiffs affected by the controversial keyboard design. […]
If you’re annoyed with the butterfly keyboard on your MacBook, Apple might finally be on the verge of doing something about it. The company issued an apology on Wednesday for ongoing problems with the third generation of its so-called butterfly keyboard. These issues leave some unable to use certain keys properly. The apology came following […]
Following an assortment of complaints about some of the mechanical issues involved with the butterfly action keyboard on the 2016 and 2017 models of its Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, Apple appears to have included a membrane under the keys to keep debris from getting stuck underneath. The cool cats at iFixit offered the following […]
Apple could be looking to fight keyboard chow/keyboard debris in its forthcoming keyboard designs. A recently published patent from 2016 shows how Apple could make its Butterfly keyboard technology more resistant to various crumb and dust particles that make their way underneath the keyboard design. The company refers to this as “ingress prevention” and explains […]