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Apple Reaches Settlement to Pay $15 to Some iPhone 4S Owners Who Experienced Buggy Performance After iOS 9 Update
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Don't worry, no matter what Apple does there will always be people ready to sue them. It's the American way ?
Incredible comments as always.
The lawsuit was filed in 2015, when all of this actually happened, not 40 years later or something. None of the initial plaintiffs believed it would take this long, as the case was actually pretty clear.
Apples lawyers did their magic, kept the whole ordeal pretty much under the radar since then and had the entire thing play out for 7 years so that in the end Apple would only have to pay a minuscule amount that most people won’t even claim.
The plaintiffs original mission was to make Apple bleed for their deceptive and false marketing asap. Not to get $15 to buy a boat with… this place is so mind numbing at times.
The lawsuit was filed in 2015, when all of this actually happened, not 40 years later or something. None of the initial plaintiffs believed it would take this long, as the case was actually pretty clear.
Apples lawyers did their magic, kept the whole ordeal pretty much under the radar since then and had the entire thing play out for 7 years so that in the end Apple would only have to pay a minuscule amount that most people won’t even claim.
The plaintiffs original mission was to make Apple bleed for their deceptive and false marketing asap. Not to get $15 to buy a boat with… this place is so mind numbing at times.
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One reason is to discourage the offending company and/or other companies from trying to do something similar in the future. The $20 million is essentially like a fine for breaking the law. How much of a deterrent these things are will vary depending size of settlement and wealth of company.
Only that in this case the people were right to do so. Apple should compensate every owner of an iPhone 4S globally imo because of iOS 9.
Wow, $15 smackers.
These days you can buy a Whopper value meal and a gallon of gas with that.
Don't expect cheese on the Whopper at that price. It's extra.....
These days you can buy a Whopper value meal and a gallon of gas with that.
Don't expect cheese on the Whopper at that price. It's extra.....
Double edged sword. Lawyer equivalents of troll patent holders shouldn’t exist as they do nothing for society, as you pointed out they even do harm by clogging up courts.
However, I wouldn’t have and basically didn’t mind every lawyer and their dog to sue Apple for the butterfly keyboard and other stuff like that. Some suits and lawyers are, unfortunately, necessary to keep corporations on their toes and improve their quality as if they won’t, people will let them know how they feel about it.
There could have been ten thousand threads on 100 forums about failing Butterfly Keyboards and Apple wouldn’t have cared the slightest, the moment they got sued that changed.
By the way, how did they get your email? Because of sales records at Toshiba?
Nope. The phones were "slowed down" for good reasons. People need to find better things to do with their time than suing companies for petty things like this.
I have no idea if this case truly had merit (although I’ll just take the ruling on its face). While this might not deter Apple from ‘purposely’ slowing down older devices, it will most likely deter them from even trying to support the updates on older devices.
People complain both ways. Either the updates make the device slow, or the updates aren’t available on the same device. In both cases it is called planned obsolescence.
In a sue happy environment, I’d just stop trying.
The usability of millions of tools was reduced for good reasons?
Which would be?
People were mad because Apple promised something they didn’t deliver and they, the customers, had to life with their unwillingness to develop a better OS or just not ship it to those phones, or more like shoving it down peoples throats.
Gotta love class action lawsuits. The lawyers should take a smaller cut so the litigants get a few more dollars. I guess I shouldn't hate the player...I should hate the game!
And what about every other iPhone that an update slowed down? Where is their justice?
And what about every other iPhone that an update slowed down? Where is their justice?
$15 us a joke... shows how pathetic most class actions lawsuits are.
To get the $15 will be more than $15 of my time.
I have a friend that spent days pursuing less than a dollar in incorrect interest charges on a credit card. Sometimes it is worth the time to claim even a symbolic win. He got his 54 cents while costing the corporation more to deal with him.
This was in (1980s) college though, when time and energy were more abundant and 54 cents meant the difference between mac and cheese and a growling stomach. Ah, the taste of victory.
After JG Wentworth is done, $3 will be left.Some will be like this over $15…..
“It’s my money and I need it now!”
Apple could have avoided this whole problem by just letting consumers downgrade their devices. If customers could restore iPhones to older versions of iOS, they would be able to choose older software in exchange for speed.
Remember when the iOS icons looked cool like that, before they went 2D and boring? ?
You can probably buy yourself enough reams of paper to make a few thousands paper boats.
For the "people of the class", a pocket full of change. For the lawyers, several yachts! Welcome to the American injustice system designed to benefit scuzzy lawyers and treat the rest of us like chattel.
You can easily find the info online, but it was to prevent iPhones with older batteries from experiencing shutdowns from overloading. If you didn't like it, the option was always there to upgrade to a newer iPhone and keep up with the times. Or of course the other option was to act entitled and petty and seek a class-action lawsuit.
A class action settlement? It's not worth the bother to sign on to these. I was in one case where a manufacturer deliberately lied about their product, was sued, and settled 'not admitting any fault'. They were saying 'Up to $1,000 for class members', and by the time the fees and attorney cost was subtracted from the settlement amount, we class members got an emailed certificate extending the warranty for a single year, unless it died, and then we would have gotten a coupon for an infinitesimally small discount on a new one. Veriizon was sued, promised checks after the settlement, we got a coupon for 10% off a cellphone accessory. *Yawn*
The only winners seem to be attorneys. 'First thing, let's kill all the lawyers' -- Shakespeare, and that was a long time ago.
Rarely do they work for the involved parties. Rarely do they change the corporation's behavior. Sad...
The only winners seem to be attorneys. 'First thing, let's kill all the lawyers' -- Shakespeare, and that was a long time ago.
Rarely do they work for the involved parties. Rarely do they change the corporation's behavior. Sad...
