Apple knowingly sold defective MacBook displays, rules judge

Apple MacBook case: A California district court judge has ruled that tech giant Apple knew what it was doing when it sold the 2016 MacBook Pro allegedly with defective display cables. The issue leaves Apple vulnerable to a potential class-action lawsuit. Cupertino is already facing a class-action lawsuit for its butterfly keyboard, and now Judge Edward Davila has allowed the “flexgate” lawsuit to proceed. The judge ruled that the company should have known that they would not succeed in what they were trying to do, but they ended up doing so anyway.

In the judgement, the judge wrote that based on the pre-release testing data and the substantial customer complaints post release sufficiently indicated that Apple had “exclusive knowledge” of the alleged defect.