And you forgot to mention the “wonderful” Keyboard... Sadly Germany sucks at this, and does not have Class-Action Lawsuit.
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Apple Faces Another Class-Action MacBook Pro ‘Flexgate’ Lawsuit
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I don't know, why not just call it what it is, a lawsuit into the flexible ribbon cables ? Not everything needs buzz words for it. Just feels over done.
Antennagate
Batterygate
Screengate
Bendgate
And those are just the examples off the top of my head within the Apple world....
Makes me wonder what buzzword it would be had Watergate never happened.
"Plaintiffs are seeking a range of relief measures, damages, and court fees. " Court fees are the 1/3 of the settlement that goes to the legal team. This is a money grab by lawyers and a few patsy named defendants.
The rest of the customers will get a few pennies.
The rest of the customers will get a few pennies.
We seemed to do fine without calling everything "xyz gate" for 40+ odd years before Antennagate came along in 2010
Nothing easier:
Apple may improve the quality management and provide – more open and clear – guarantee repair to customers who paid heavily for high quality standard and are often pushed and punished by Apple especially with bad Mac Book Laptops over the last 5 years
Do you remember all failures?
But for the sake:
Jony Ive has gone far away! 😂👍
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Display on my 13in 2017 pro had a similar issue. Screen randomly went out but backlight still functioned. Had to pay $500 out of pocket for the repair... ridiculous considering the above and that my machine obviously had no damage.
SOB's got me less than a month after the warranty was up. Both the manager at the Apple store and the "Genius" were real jerks about the whole process. They got a decent chunk of change out of me for the repair, and in the process, turned a evangelist for the brand into a cautious hanger on.
I can't tell you how many times I heard "Well, if you had just bought AppleCare".
I won't buy ANYTHING at the Apple store unless it's on my Amex, which doubles the warranty. I don't WANT AppleCare because I don't need someone to hold my hand to make my shiet work. I just want the premium priced product I'm buying to work past the warranty date!
Seriously, buying AppleCare increases the price by like 30%. An $1500 laptop that becomes disposable the day the manufacturer warranty is up isn’t very premium in my book.If that’s Apple’s proposition then you may as well get a faster PC for half the price.
Bloody outrageous, larceny, highway robbery and not to mention not very nice!!
Macbook 2016 15inch, in 3 year, 3 time keyboard and 2 times display replaced. And now I am getting again display issue.
There is a problem here. You keep using the word REPAIR incorrectly. Apple does not repair anything. They replace faulty motherboard or display assembly with a working one. Repair would involve someone spending time isolating the issue and replacing a faulty COMPONENT and not the whole damn thing.
I've never been a big fan of class action lawsuits in general. Usually does amount to someone just looking for some small thing to nit-pick that they can get some legal traction out of to make a company pay out a claim. (You know ... like the lawsuit a while back over a cellphone company applying the wrong local tax rates on accounts, which amounted to maybe 15 cents people got over-charged on bills?)
But Apple, IMO, deserves this one, and any others related to some of their products with design flaws. They have a LONG standing habit of only grouping a small subset of hardware in as eligible for "out of warranty repair" for these known issues when they come up. I've seen them do that for many years ... A product will have an issue for 2-3 years of production and after Apple gets enough bad press, they claim they'll start covering it out of warranty, but specify a narrow range of qualifying serial numbers that excludes everything but the first year's production run or so.
But Apple, IMO, deserves this one, and any others related to some of their products with design flaws. They have a LONG standing habit of only grouping a small subset of hardware in as eligible for "out of warranty repair" for these known issues when they come up. I've seen them do that for many years ... A product will have an issue for 2-3 years of production and after Apple gets enough bad press, they claim they'll start covering it out of warranty, but specify a narrow range of qualifying serial numbers that excludes everything but the first year's production run or so.
Yes, Apple sure does fit your description to a T. Great observation.
The amount of legal stuff hitting Apple recently is quite a bit intense, at least, those reported on macrumors.
While we are at it, can someone start another class action lawsuit against Apple manufacturing iPad Pro 2018 causing the screen to flicker randomly? /s
Seriously though, the whole management team must change their mind and take care about device longevity instead of fiercely seeking for unlimited profit. When will apple’s growth Lines up with reality? Or apple sheep’s purchasing power is unlimited?
While we are at it, can someone start another class action lawsuit against Apple manufacturing iPad Pro 2018 causing the screen to flicker randomly? /s
Seriously though, the whole management team must change their mind and take care about device longevity instead of fiercely seeking for unlimited profit. When will apple’s growth Lines up with reality? Or apple sheep’s purchasing power is unlimited?
Apple ? When they stop making systems with big issues. There are far too many recalls for laptops in that range.
Ok, they may replace the whole motherboard. But from device perspective they are still trying to “repair”, by replacing components (motherboard, display etc). Apple is not just throw you a refurbished or brand new MacBook Pro each time some defects happen, unlike they deal with iPhone iPad etc.
Apple is turning into a fashion brand name. It costs 10x more just because it has "Apple" written on it. I don't mind paying $3000 for an Apple laptop if it comes in the quality of Sony electronics from the 90s, but when I pay $3k and get malfunctioning keys, green spots, faulty GPUs.... guess what I didn't pay $3K to take a picture holding it for my Instagram followers...I paid it to get high quality reliable laptop. You can get Dells and Acers for $600
