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A class-action lawsuit resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement and Apple’s eventual abandonment of the design. For years, portable productivity was undermined by a keyboard that couldn’t handle daily use.
Louis Rossmann, iFixit, and European regulators pushed back. France now mandates repairability scores. The EU requires user-replaceable batteries by 2027. desimmsscandalkaand portable
The scandal was compounded by an initial “safe” replacement that also caught fire. Samsung’s reputation took years to recover. A class-action lawsuit resulted in a multi-million dollar
