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Flexgate macbook pro 20187/6/2023 ![]() In 2018, it was reported that Apple elongated the display cable of the MacBook Pro without any acknowledgement in public. The judge wrote in the order, “The court finds that the allegations of pre-release testing in combination with the allegations of substantial customer complaints are sufficient to show that Apple had exclusive knowledge of the alleged defect.” Law360 was the first one to report the case. ![]() Furthermore, a flurry of users’ complaints should’ve been enough for Apple to figure out that something was wrong at a macro level. District Judge Edward Davila sided with the plaintiffs and said that Apple’s engineers could’ve discovered the defect in the pre-release stage, but intensive testing wasn’t performed. After years of litigation, a judge has concluded that Apple could’ve prevented the defect in early testing but didn’t. The defect was popularly called “flexgate”, and it was soon discovered that a weak and fragile flex cable was undergoing wear and tear whenever the clamshell machine was opened or closed. You’d think that they must’ve damaged the computer in an accident, but as it turns out, Apple’s behind it. There was an odd stage light-like effect that would gradually make the laptop unusable. In 2019, some 2016 or 2017 MacBook Pro model users started noticing a weird anomaly on their screens.
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