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Apple Hit with 'Planned Obsolescence' Lawsuit in Brazil over Fourth-Generation iPad
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This is even crazier than suing over a rectangle with rounded corners!
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Please don't even pretend you are ignorant on that matter because am sure you are not. It was much more then "rectangle" thing as you and Samsung would like ppl to believe and kudos to Apple for suing the **** out of them.
I spent Christmas in Rio a decade ago. Beautiful place. The next day we spent a day in Porto Bello and had a great meal on the beach. I like Brazil.
why? this country is completely non-sense at all. taxation here is far beyond ridiculous. this burocratic office made this complain about pseudo-obsolescence, really? i think they are targeting at wrong direction, in their feet.
It's your home. Be proud and do what you can do to help change things. What part of Brasil are you from?
"That part" that never actually happened was frivolous? Huh. Maybe that's why it never actually happened.
Apple is honest!
This is so cool, macrummors, please let me know when can I trade my iPad 3 for the newest model + 50% of its price in cash!
Apple is so caring! I love this company, so much love for the brazilians!
Too bad they don't care for the rest of the world.
could give some loving to the americans iPad 3 owners (aka beta tester) too!
This is so cool, macrummors, please let me know when can I trade my iPad 3 for the newest model + 50% of its price in cash!
Apple is so caring! I love this company, so much love for the brazilians!
Too bad they don't care for the rest of the world.
could give some loving to the americans iPad 3 owners (aka beta tester) too!
I agree with this lawsuite wholeheartedly and wish there was a class action lawsuit in the US. People like me bough the 3rd gen and then shortly after the 4th gen came out with the only changes being a new graphics chip and lightning connector. I personally would like the performance improvement of the 4th gen but already shelled out money for the 3rd gen. I believe Apple planned this and it's probably good business from a money making standpoint. Whatever they have in store for any future iPad better include a revamped iOS because Apple is losing to Android imo. The exception being I would buy a retina iPad mini even with iOS 6.1. That would be one sexy tablet.
Sorry. I thought that the rectangle with rounded corners was mentioned in the lawsuit. My apologies.
Actually, Im kinda glad Brazil filed this. Yeah, products are updated and we all know the products we buy now will be replaced by improved ones later, that's how it goes. But I kinda agree that the release of the Ipad 4 was so close after the ipad 3 that Apple could have put the new tech -especially the lightning connector into 3 - and I understand why a lot of people were pissed about that.
Brazil only said what a lot of people were thinking. I went from the iPad 1 to the ipad mini and didn't feel that, but I understand the anger. I know that the retina display mini will probably come out in the fall, but I made a decision and accept that. However the new connector is a different issue.
I'm just glad Brazil filed this lawsuit. Minor updates ever 6 months are ok, but the major updates like a new connector across the board should be spaced out more to a year. Takes the sting out a bit and is easier to swallow.
Apple could have included the new connector in the ipad 3, so they should have waited IMHO.
Brazil only said what a lot of people were thinking. I went from the iPad 1 to the ipad mini and didn't feel that, but I understand the anger. I know that the retina display mini will probably come out in the fall, but I made a decision and accept that. However the new connector is a different issue.
I'm just glad Brazil filed this lawsuit. Minor updates ever 6 months are ok, but the major updates like a new connector across the board should be spaced out more to a year. Takes the sting out a bit and is easier to swallow.
Apple could have included the new connector in the ipad 3, so they should have waited IMHO.
Actually the lady who bought coffee at McDonalds had a reason to sue and had a winning case. She spilled scaulding hot coffee on her lady parts. OUCH!
She proved that McDonalds coffee was extremely and unnecesarily hot and as a direct result she suffered serious injury.
People buying an iPad 3 then getting upset because Apple releases an improved model 7 months later have NOT suffered any injury.
I do think this was planned obsolence... The iPad 3 wasn't ready for prime time, they real eased it ahead of time just to keep up with their yearly cycle, so they released the iPad 3 with shorter battery life, screen issues and heating issues, old connector, heavier, bigger and provided the same performance of an iPad 2 but with a retina display. Apple knew the product wasn't ready but they had to release something, they couldn't wait until the fall. So they changed the name, they called it the New iPad!, not iPad 3, not iPad 2S, they called it the new iPad because they knew they would release another one some months later and imagine the perception if they had released the iPad 3 and some months later the iPad 4! That couldn't happen so they changed the name to the new iPad to reduce the impact. They announced the iPad 4 along with the iPad Mini and most of the people didn't even realized a new iPad was out.
I don't remember if it was Fox News or another outlet, they were talking about how the apps would work on the iPad mini, so the apple
Guy says to them that all iPad 4 apps and below will work exactly the same on the iPad mini, and the news outlet didn't know there was an iPad 4, they actually reported that it may be a new iPad apple was workin on. So, yeah, I think this lawsuit is right, and the fact that stores sold the iPad 3 even after the 4 was out at the exact same price just proves the point. Customer had no idea they were purchasing an old model, and how could you know when the product looks the same, the name is the same and the price is the same.
I don't remember if it was Fox News or another outlet, they were talking about how the apps would work on the iPad mini, so the apple
Guy says to them that all iPad 4 apps and below will work exactly the same on the iPad mini, and the news outlet didn't know there was an iPad 4, they actually reported that it may be a new iPad apple was workin on. So, yeah, I think this lawsuit is right, and the fact that stores sold the iPad 3 even after the 4 was out at the exact same price just proves the point. Customer had no idea they were purchasing an old model, and how could you know when the product looks the same, the name is the same and the price is the same.
And it other news, Apple bans all future generation iPad sales in Brazil so all its citizens feel that their iPad 4 is the best..... FOREVER!
"planned obsolescence"
Are you *********g kidding me?! You're going to sue someone just because they released a new product? If that's the case, then you should be doing a lot of suing.
Don't you just love technology!
Are you *********g kidding me?! You're going to sue someone just because they released a new product? If that's the case, then you should be doing a lot of suing.
Don't you just love technology!
Stupidest lawsuit ever. If they win then I see Brazilians simply not getting interim product updates like those we see on laptops and such (e.g.: processor bumps or minor spec bumps).
The iPad 4 is to the iPad 3 what a minor spec bump is on any laptop. I am a happy iPad 3 owner and if iPad 4 does not have enough to make me want to upgrade then I will simply wait for iPad 5. No big deal.
Nothing about the previous product fails to function because a better one is released. Nothing about the iPad 3 was falsely advertised -- it does everything it says it does.
This needs to be thrown out of court (assuming the lawsuit is real).
The iPad 4 is to the iPad 3 what a minor spec bump is on any laptop. I am a happy iPad 3 owner and if iPad 4 does not have enough to make me want to upgrade then I will simply wait for iPad 5. No big deal.
Nothing about the previous product fails to function because a better one is released. Nothing about the iPad 3 was falsely advertised -- it does everything it says it does.
This needs to be thrown out of court (assuming the lawsuit is real).
Apparently a lot of people travel less now because of Apple maps on their iPhone 5
I thought it wasn't just on iPhone 5 but in the entire iOS 6.