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Apple Pays $946 in Korean Lawsuit Over Location Data Collection, New Class Action Suit Coming
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Really? I thought it was in Millions... $946M --- anytime Apple is paying out in court, it's in the Millions, so my assumption was the same. That's the first time I ever heard Apple losing in court for less than a thousand. Must a new record.
Now that a presidence has been set, a class action will hurt. Babies!
I cant believe no one has spotted his major mistake here and the irony of it all.
He's attempted to setup a "sue Apple" website and in the process has registered a trademark in his domain to do it. Oops.
Cease and desist on that domain name coming in 5, 4, 3...
He's attempted to setup a "sue Apple" website and in the process has registered a trademark in his domain to do it. Oops.
Cease and desist on that domain name coming in 5, 4, 3...
Dude, sit down before you read this, because it will probably blow your mind:
Not all Americans are the same.
In fact: not all ____s are the same.
Leave the netherlands once in a while and you'll see that I'm right
I'm not saying all Americans are the same. Plus, I've been to the States many times.
However, you can't deny the USA has a reputation for its lawsuits. Hot coffee? Marlboro? McDonalds even got sued for marketing Happy Meals to children!
Also, Google "american lawsuit culture" for many more examples, and how much this is costing you!
The McDonald's coffee lawsuit was legit. If you want to make a point about being overly litigious, that's not a good example.
Given the size of the country, I think that's somewhat unfair. I found the following out from "brokenm" on this page.A bit silly to see Americans complaining about this, given the infamous sue culture they have themselves.
Found a bit of info on the U.S.
Roughly 15 million cases are filed each year, of these two thirds are business against business with the remaining third individual against individual or individual against business. These amount to an annual 300 billion in litigation costs (what these costs entail, I have no idea). So 15 million by 290 million people is 0.051 cases per person. However, most of these are resolved before going to court.
Found on
this site
and National Center for State Courts
Roughly 15 million cases are filed each year, of these two thirds are business against business with the remaining third individual against individual or individual against business. These amount to an annual 300 billion in litigation costs (what these costs entail, I have no idea). So 15 million by 290 million people is 0.051 cases per person. However, most of these are resolved before going to court.
Found on
this site
and National Center for State Courts
Also, I just found that the US population now is 311,752,000 so the percentage per person is even lower.
I read somewhere a long time ago that Australia was even worse than the US, ... I'll try to track that down.
Go anywhere outside the US and that's the lawsuit that's cited as the prime example of America's litigation culture and lack of personal responsibility.
Just because $946 is not a lot for you or most Americans, doesn't mean it's not a lot for others.
And you can win, if Apple has the choice of paying $1000 to send a lawyer and "winning" or paying nothing and losing $946. Could be that this was something like a British small claims court, where it is strictly limited how much you can lose.
Many people complain that Apple is greedy for not giving away tons of free things as does Google. However, Google isn't a charity. It's a business. Those "free services" provide Google revenue opportunities at the expense of a cluttered web experience and often the loss of some privacy.
In this instance with the Korean lawsuit, what Apple did was relatively benign and partially a bug. Now they are going to end up spending millions in legal fees and measly $0.35 (or whatever it would be in wons) awards mailed to class action plaintiffs around the globe in similar lawsuits. Along with marketing costs to handle damage control, toss in the expenses of all the testimonies they have to give in congressional committees and their counterparts internationally, and we're talking real money.
Consider that Google just hired 12 lobbying firms in the U.S. due to the unwelcome scrutiny they are now undergoing. Is it then any wonder why Apple historically favors charging people for services versus using the "free" model?
In this instance with the Korean lawsuit, what Apple did was relatively benign and partially a bug. Now they are going to end up spending millions in legal fees and measly $0.35 (or whatever it would be in wons) awards mailed to class action plaintiffs around the globe in similar lawsuits. Along with marketing costs to handle damage control, toss in the expenses of all the testimonies they have to give in congressional committees and their counterparts internationally, and we're talking real money.
Consider that Google just hired 12 lobbying firms in the U.S. due to the unwelcome scrutiny they are now undergoing. Is it then any wonder why Apple historically favors charging people for services versus using the "free" model?
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I just ask
Is it possible that the whole country of Korea feels angry at Apple for the suit against Samsung? So, aside from the private action, there's some desire to strike back at Apple?
How tight are Samsung and the South Korean government?
Is it possible that the whole country of Korea feels angry at Apple for the suit against Samsung? So, aside from the private action, there's some desire to strike back at Apple?
How tight are Samsung and the South Korean government?
There has been a systematic political campaign to discredit the whole thing. The narrative of what happened is fraudulent. In other words, they're lying to you. The modern corporation wants to be immune from the people's lawsuits.
The truth is, they knew what keeping their coffee ten degrees hotter than any other fast food supplier, and they knew the consequences: a higher number of injury suits because that difference was the difference between being burned with hot coffee and being scalded -- which is hotter and more dangerous. McDonald's knew that, and they wanted to go with the higher temp, because they saved money that way as long as they could settle quickly for a few hundred without a lawsuit. That was the pattern that was revealed, and the jury added two days' of McDonald's earnings from coffee to the reward. The idea is to punish the wrongdoer severely enough that they turn the temp down so it won't mean scalding thousands of customers and not having to pay.
The Hell With Them
We should pull our troops out of S Korea, the greedy, back-stabbing devils. Let'em be nuke fodder for Kim Jong-il.
We should pull our troops out of S Korea, the greedy, back-stabbing devils. Let'em be nuke fodder for Kim Jong-il.
Do we know that? One's personal privacy is tampered with when movements are monitored.
I still think it is a good thing, even the remote possiblitiy is enough, those things need to end now.
...and by the way, I'm a lawyer ;-)
Then maybe South Korea can pull out of developing technology used in all your itoys and other electrical goods
Stupid prick.
It is because it seems so dumb to the lay person but if you read all the facts of the case then you see why McDonald lost and was in the wrong. Add to it their how they acted in court and you would see why.