Apple’s iPhone faces class-action lawsuit
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By Steve Ragan Jul 31, 2007, 15:42 GMT
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If this guy bought an IPhone and decides he doesn't like it, for whatever reason, whatever happened to just returning the thing for a full refund? What's the point in suing them? Is he supposed to have suffered emotional distress when he found out about the battery? This is ridiculous and just part of the litigious culture in this country that must be eradicated.
If you're stupid enough to buy a THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR phone, you very well can't sue Apple for your stupidity now can you? :) It's just silly.
What? This guy isn't rich enough he has to make money off of Apple? He's so stupid he didn't realize in the store that the battery can't be replaced? He needs attention so bad that has to tie up our court system with this laughable case? I wish I could get on the jury for this one. I'd charge him with stupidity and make him dig holes in the desert for wasting the court's time.
To much talk for nothing.Apples iphone is great everybody knows about the battery and is fine with it.I have 2 apple iphones and most likely I will not need replacement battery because the iphone 2 will come out I'll just buy the new phone lol :)People like this guy ...no comment.If you don't like the iphone don't buy it or if you buy it and you are not happy with take it back and return it.It is like tv you don't like a channel click on the remote.It is America and it is a free country nobody puts your gun to your head and tell you to buy an iphone.It is ridiculous,the law suit.And you want to know something no Apple customer or iphone owner will sue apple unless they are not all together...
adrian
Nobody told him he had to buy an Iphone (aka Ican'tphone). If you don't like it, take it back. And the suit? Quit wasting everyone's time. My LG works very nicely. Batteries are only 5 bucks on ebay and I buy one well before it dies thankyouverymuch :-D
It has been well publicized that the batteries in the iPods and the iPhones are not user accessable. It is ludicrus that a company should have to pawn to the litigious desires of some greedy lawyers.
If this suit progresses, the only benefactors of the suit will be the lawyers that will line their pockets with Apple's cash. We'll still have our iPods and iPhones, but we'll have a $5 coupon as our proceeds of the suit.
If the consumers are so outraged by the product that Apple develops then they are more than welcome to buy something else. If Apple had developed a case that was easily accessible, then the lawyers would have sued for something else.
There are teams of lawyers that look for any type of class action suit that would bring a huge profit with a successful trial. They also look to profit from the defendant simply paying up to settle.
We are a litigatious society more than we even know.
I would like to initiate a class action lawsuite against all of the idiots that waste our time and resources with these lawsuits. The downside, of course, I will eventually have to sue myself :(
Umm.. Who said it was Three Thousand Dollars..... last time I checked it was in the rang of 499.99 and 649.99.... less than 1/3 of your ridiculous claim.
Bad on Apple for not seeing this down the road, they didn't realize people would want to change batteries ...
Once again, design force is telling the consumer what they want, insted of what should take place, consumer driven design.
What is the benefit of sealing the battery in the device? Ipods are the same way. Is there some secret garden hidden in there that they don't want you to see? Does Apple really power their devices with magic and they don't want anyone to find out?
Yes the lawsuit is frivolous, but I think it is unacceptable that any company would actually produce any products with such a glaring flaw. However, my way of protesting it that I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT A SINGLE PRODUCT FROM APPLE!!! Not a mouse, not a PC, not an Ipod, not even a 3rd party accessory designed for an Apple product. I am not satisfied with the competition, but GROSS OVERPRICING and BLATANT (probably intentional) FLAWS make the whole company laughable in my opinion.
I have owned at least 4 cell phones in the past 7 years. I have never had to replace a batter for a cellphone. EVER. For any reason (including defect). However, even a blind monkey could see that defects occur, batteries die, and it is much easier to ship a replacement battery to the customer than to have the customer mail the product back to you then hack into your own product on the customer's behalf to replace the battery and ship it back to them. Unacceptable. Apple has never won my business, and as long as they continue this idiotic practice, they never will.
I liken Apple to a world renowed Genious that can't clip his own fingernails.
Perfect. I always wanted a $600 device that was designed to fail and not be able to be fixed. Not to mention I have no option in the service provider...
I need one now, it's SOooooooooooooooooooooo cute.
Steve Jobs is definitely the leader in business technology... wait, that was IBM that made themselves compatible and usable in the biz world. Nevermind, it's cute though, right? How cute is the display when it doesn't even TURN ON?
Use one.
Then get back to us.
Without your having actually used one first, you're bogus critiques are just you talking out of your asses.
'Yes the lawsuit is frivolous, but I think it is unacceptable that any company would actually produce any products with such a glaring flaw.'
I think it's unacceptable that people would buy their products knowing full well that they can't change the batteries and the replacements are WAY overpriced and still do it anyway. But then again, really dumb people do make life more interesting and they also make me feel oodles better about myself so buy on, apple sheeple, buy on.
I'll buy one AFTER the lombodomy. That's the only time I can actually see myself paying for the pain and discomfort of getting *bleep*ed up the *bleep* by Apple.
All I can so is Go! Apple - those of you who just had to have one and be the first on the block are going to have to pay for your impateince by dealing with the flaws (of which there are many). While I am excited with the technology I fully intend to wait until the 3rd generation appears. First generation technology is alway questionable. In this day of Tech-o-rama people should just know this. I would agree that the whole idea of litigation is just silly; take the phone back if your not happy with it.
If you're happy fixing windows problems ... then be happy there.
If you've never used a mac, then you're just talking out of your ass. So who cares about you baseless comment.
I've used both over the years, and anyone who has actually used both, knows that Macs blow away PCs on many points. (esp when it comes to no headaches and real user power)
IMHO, PC users are like abused wives 'It's not so bad, it only beats me up once a day.' THey accept a certain level of disfunction from Windows as 'normal'.
I have an iPhone and love it. Absolutely the best phone I've ever used (and I've had many).
Just like the windows environment pioneered by the Mac in 1984, Apple has set the new standard for cell phone functions and interface. (Windows is a poor attempt at acting like a Mac ... read the history)
Watch and see. In the next year or so you guys will be buying a lame windows copy of the iPhone, and telling us you invented it.
The real lawsuit should come from the device being locked to one company. If you spend your good money on an iPhone the device is YOURS, right? Then why can't you choose your carrier? AT&T sure didn't give you any money to buy it. It's like buying a TV that only works with a single cable provider. Or buying a car tha consumes gas from only one company. Ridiculous.
For your information that's G E N I U S, hmmm. And if the way you spell is anything to go by the rest of us who do buy Apple products (all 15 of us) we're better off without you contaminating our IQ pool, you would probably make average dip below genius level. lol
Sounds like you already had a lombodomby? perhaps you meant to say lobotomy. Overpriced hardly in the upper price range, certainly. Easier to use more efficient and more attractive definetly! Fully ready to run windows as good or better as an equivalent pc you betcha, so what's not to like (apart from your atrocious grammar mr. lombodomby) :-)
It's a completely ridiculous lawsuit, nobody has been hurt, or even emotionally distressed. I do believe however, that Apple is being very underhanded, and unprofessional by making their device's batteries inaccessable. You are being forced to pay Apple to replace your battery for you, or forced into buying a new one. Such blatant abuse and money grubbing should be illegal.
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