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Comment by ajsharp | Hacker News Reader

Ok, how do I um...get that money??

> As part of Wednesday's settlement, $113 million will be distributed among the states, including California, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. The funds will cover attorneys' fees and will be used to fund future consumer protection investigators.

You will get nothing by the looks of it.

Sweet justice. We get scammed, corporate pays a fine, lawyers get rich.

Which honestly is pretty sad/absurd.

Honestly, a voucher for 1 free battery replacement usable at any-time for every class member would have been a fair-enough settlement IMO.

  - Would mitigate damages to the class
 
  - Relatively low cost to Apple, but enough to make a dent and deter future shenanigans. Considering a no-name battery can be had for 6$, I will assume that Apple's cost for a genuine one is that number. (could be lower, could be a little higher but doubt it.)

Has any consumer ever been adequately compensated by a class action suit?

The Google Nexus 6 has some fatal flaw and went into a bootloop after a year of use. As part of the class action settlement, I got most of the purchase price back. I liked that phone a lot though...

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