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#1  drofgnal 01-05-2023, 05:20 AM
Anyone else get an email on keyboard litigation for MacBooks purchased between 2015 and 2019. Email notes problems with butterfly keyboard. I don't know why I got it, unless Apple provided a list of user ids that had that model keyboard. I don't have anything in that range so I don't know why I got it, maybe because at one time my apple id was on a work computer in that range.
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#2  tomsem 01-06-2023, 12:04 AM
TBH it sounds like a phishing thing to me. Normally you would get a snail mail for any real litigation.

But you might check at a Mac forum such as the one forums.macrumors.com

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/macbook-pro.90/
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#3  drofgnal 01-06-2023, 04:42 AM
Yea, I found it suspicious too, hence I asked.
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#4  tomsem 01-06-2023, 05:43 PM
As it happens I got one this morning!

It was sent to an email address I used exactly one time, to apply for a job at Apple, one of those gmail '+' aliases. So it's only associated with an AppleID (which I've never used to register a device). So now I think it is legit (i.e., Apple had to give a list of AppleID email addresses to the litigant), or else Apple has had a massive data breach.

Apple would not have street or mail addresses in general for customers, so the only point of contact is email.

I have not yet gotten one for my actual AppleID email. And I've never owned a device with butterfly keyboard, so I will not become a millionaire as a result of the lawsuit.
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#5  drofgnal 01-07-2023, 04:08 AM
I don't own a device with that keyboard, my wife's laptop is a 2020 M1 air. I do have a work laptop with intel from around the time in question that I used my apple ID on. Strange. I'll ask the computer support guy at work who is an apple aficionado and report back.
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#6  tomsem 01-07-2023, 09:17 PM
Quote drofgnal
I don't own a device with that keyboard, my wife's laptop is a 2020 M1 air. I do have a work laptop with intel from around the time in question that I used my apple ID on. Strange. I'll ask the computer support guy at work who is an apple aficionado and report back.
Yes, I had a work laptop with butterfly keyboard, using my Apple ID, but that doesn't count for litigation. And I never had any problems with it.
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#7  Dr. Drib 01-10-2023, 02:24 PM
This article may be helpful:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/09/macbook-keyboard-lawsuit-settlement-eligible/
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