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Apple Being Sued Over Phone-Switching iMessage Issue

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numlock said:
apple cant be the only one allowed to sue?

it is a sad state of affairs but how long should this "bug" go unfixed before extreme measures like this are taken?
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If this turned out to be Androids fault :)
 
Chase R said:
While this may be an issue, it is not lawsuit worthy. If you knew a thing or two about contract law, you would realize the absurdity of this case.

The issue I have here is that people feel so ****ing entitled to a functioning service that if it fails, they feel they deserve monetary compensation. That is not only wrong, it is legally bulli*****. No one is forcing iMessage down your throat. No one is forcing an iPhone down your throat. YOU bought it. Your get what you paid for. Deal with it.
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Wow. That's about the most insensitive thing I've read in this thread.

Consider a situation where someone (a family member) is trying to reach you about an emergency type situation and, unknowingly, you are not receiving their messages because of this bug?

Many of us use our iPhones for business. When I switched to Android (temporarily), I did not realize I was missing TXT's until some of my clients contacted me, irate, wondering why I wasn't returning their messages.

I suppose your reasoning could be applied to any consumer lawsuit, right? Maybe GM could just tell the owners of their cars that turn off by themselves the same thing? GM didn't force anyone to buy their car or put heavy keychains on their keyring. You bought it, you get what you pay for, right?

Sheesh.
 
tito2020 said:
It is true I have a iPad mini and I have tried texting my self to my android device I do not get it at all unless its a apple product to product.
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You need to remove the phone number from the iMessage settings, keeping your email(s) only.

I thought it was obvious, but apparently not...
 
and Apple fans wonder why everyone thinks they're sheep. Some of these replies are beyond ridiculous. Do you people even bother reading the article or do you just read the title and go into automatic Apple defensive fanboi mode?
 
Jibbajabba said:
Not that easy. My wife got an Android and because she read about all the problems she disabled iMessage, removed from iCloud, logged off her iTunes account on the phone and then sent a text via SMS, to an iPhone user. The reply received. Now all's well. We thought. Android arrived and since then she never received another text from iPhone users. Advisor in shop then suggested selling the Android and buy an iPhone again. The guy made then fun of her saying 'that's the iPhone virus, once an iPhone, always an iPhone'. Guess what, we don't think it's funny and the only solution we found is changing her number.
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I think that is hilarious.

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dmylrea said:
Wow. That's about the most insensitive thing I've read in this thread.

Consider a situation where someone (a family member) is trying to reach you about an emergency type situation and, unknowingly, you are not receiving their messages because of this bug?

Many of us use our iPhones for business. When I switched to Android (temporarily), I did not realize I was missing TXT's until some of my clients contacted me, irate, wondering why I wasn't returning their messages.

I suppose your reasoning could be applied to any consumer lawsuit, right? Maybe GM could just tell the owners of their cars that turn off by themselves the same thing? GM didn't force anyone to buy their car or put heavy keychains on their keyring. You bought it, you get what you pay for, right?

Sheesh.
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The sender would obviously know if you received the iMessages or not. It shows a little "delivered" message at the bottom right when the recipient gets the iMessage. It's really quite obvious.
 
rpe33 said:
Easy solution: Don't switch to Android.
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I switched to a new BlackBerry handset and had the exact same issue. Its sorta dumb of Apple not to have fixed this yet. iMessage is a simple message client. Everyone else manages to have one without any silly bugs like this existing from 2011.
 
JayCee842 said:
Apple fans, in numbers, are actually criticizing the company for once. I never thought I would see this here on MacRumors. :cool:
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So, based on your post one could say that you're not an Apple Fan since you're referring to others as such? I mean this is an Apple enthusiast board. I'd like to think that the people that come here are at least Apple enthusiasts.
 
JayCee842 said:
Apple fans, in numbers, are actually criticizing the company for once. I never thought I would see this here on MacRumors. :cool:
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There is plenty to criticize when it comes to iMessage/Messages, but this stuff is way down the list. My number one peeve: there are still a bunch of really useful features, left over from iChat like Screen Sharing & Video Chat that require an AIM login (that's A as in AOL for you young ones) instead of just using the same Apple ID as iMessage...
 
C DM said:
Well, exactly. Then why bring up the point yourself about not seeing any complaints about and how that explains/justifies something? Seems like this statement from you nullifies that other statement that you made.
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Reading sarcasm is one of your weak points.
 
smegma22 said:
Why the long standing problem of the iMessage not working after quitting Apple service is on all the sites now.
It had to be re-popularized for the lawsuit.
I hope the people lose.
PETTY PETTY PETTY.
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Apple has a problem yet you hope people lose? Let's hope Apple fixes the issue, then the people win just from that.

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HenryDJP said:
You seriously needed the last word on that? Oy vey. :rolleyes:
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Sounds like you did, essentially baiting me to make this type of a reply. ;). It's all good though, the actual important stuff that needed to be said about it all was already said before any of these posts from the last few minutes or so.
 
chrono1081 said:
Suing over a frivolous software bug. That is absolutely no grounds to sue ever no matter what the reason.
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In case you and your brothers and sisters in mind can't wrap your heads around this: Nobody is suing over the bug. Everybody knows that bugs happen, no big deal.
The people are suing over three years of negligence and ignoring a bug, which is actively messing with people's communication.

And regarding "there's no damage": When you have to get a new number because of this, and only because of this, you have to invest time and effort to tell your contacts about that new number. That's the damage.

It's weird that this bug hasn't escalated its way up the chain of command by now, and it's sad that it takes a possible lawsuit to accomplish this.
 
The damage would also be that people might not be switching to competitors' phones to avoid the problem.
 
Hurda said:
In case you and your brothers and sisters in mind can't wrap your heads around this: Nobody is suing over the bug. Everybody knows that bugs happen, no big deal.
The people are suing over three years of negligence and ignoring a bug, which is actively messing with people's communication.

And regarding "there's no damage": When you have to get a new number because of this, and only because of this, you have to invest time and effort to tell your contacts about that new number. That's the damage.

It's weird that this bug hasn't escalated its way up the chain of command by now, and it's sad that it takes a possible lawsuit to accomplish this.
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Maybe because of reporting it people post about it on Facebook and on forums thinking Apple reads these things.

Suing over a software bug is stupid, there is nothing you can say to sway my opinion. Get angry? Yes. Switch platforms? Yes. Sue? No.
 
Hurda said:
And regarding "there's no damage": When you have to get a new number because of this, and only because of this, you have to invest time and effort to tell your contacts about that new number. That's the damage.
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Where did you read somebody would have to get a new number? The article only states that people called into Apple and the solution was to have their numbers removed from iMessage registry only.
 
chrono1081 said:
Suing over a frivolous software bug. That is absolutely no grounds to sue ever no matter what the reason.

Suing is for serious offenses, not for things like not getting a text message.
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is it a software bug when its over 3 years old, known and makes leaving the ios system more difficult and unpleasant?

maybe its a bug but its certainly not a frivolous one.

what method do you propose? apple dosent seem to care and that a person has to sue says more about apple than the plaintiff or the legal system
 
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