I've been following Apple for years and don't recall widespread reports of what I'm sure would have gleefully reported in the press as "Buttongate"; that some h

I've been following Apple for years and don't recall widespread reports of what I'm sure would have gleefully reported in the press as "Buttongate"; that some home buttons failed prematurely isn't in and of itself a convincing argument for Apple's active malevolence, given that we're talking about, what, ~200M units? In those numbers, 99.99% of the switches could have no problems at all and there would still literally be tens of thousands of failures. Maybe Apple shipped faulty switches knowingly. But they're also an awfully big juicy target for less scrupulous lawyers.