Everything that is wrong with America. The class action lawsuit.

[mrblack927]

This is getting completely out of hand. Like anyone deserves compensation for buying a phone and then voluntarily keeping it even though they have a problem with it. As others have said, if you don't like it, return it. Problem solved.

 

[TB2010]

Yay, the lawyers need more $$$ with the economy in the dumps. As for anyone getting anything, you do not deserve it. Return the phone, plain and simple no loss and no damages to you. Plus even if you win the lawyers will take everything you maybe, just maybe you will get enough for lunch on the McD's $1 menu.

This is so dumb.

 

[sneezymarble]

It'll get thrown out in court.

Defect means it doesn't work, period.

You hold the phone in infinite possible ways and it will not work, or the phone just doesn't maintain signal at all.

They need to prove this.

As I understand it, they just need to show that the product is unfit for the purpose intended - that of being a phone. Along the way they're going to have to show that there's a reasonable expectation that one ought to be able to hold the phone the way that causes the problem without there being a problem. To my knowledge, Apple has never issued statements with respect to how the phone ought to be held, let along held to avoid reception problems, until after the reception problem was reported. Before that, Apple's marketing and promotional materials for the iPhone 4 show people holding the phone in exactly the way that causes the reception problem. Additionally, Jobs can be seen doing the same in his presentation. That could be used as evidence to show that the public was given a reasonable expectation that they ought to be able to hold the phone that way without problem. But, when the phone is held that way in areas with sufficiently week SNR (signal to noise ratio), even if the phone reports 5 bars, the phone becomes unfit as a phone - its use as a phone being an intended purpose.

Apple in no way misled its consumers when they bought this product.

See above.

Also, they need to prove that every phone ever produced is facing the issues they described. And from the talk on forums here, not everyone is facing an antenna issue. Thus, not everyone everywhere else isn't facing issues either.

You obviously haven't followed the issue very well. There are two components to the problem. (1) Apple's antenna design, and (2) the strength of the signal from a carrier's cell towers. People in areas with a sufficiently strong signal can death grip the phone without any apparent loss of reception. In some cases the signal strength can be high enough above 5 bars that, even though the SNR will decrease, the decrease will not be enough to cause the phone to display less than 5 bars of signal strength. So far, all the evidence seems to point toward every phone having this problem, and there's a reasonable explanation for why not every phone user experiences this problem.

 

[chriskzoo]

Not this lawsuit, but class action lawsuits in general is what it wrong with America. A company screws up, some lawyer gets 1000's of co-complainers and the company settles the suit for like $20 a person and the lawyer, who probably never purchased the product in the first place, walks away with 30% of the total payout.

Totally fair. 🙄

 

[bababoey14]

Good Apple needs to be pushed to do the right thing cause now they keep saying "there is nothing wrong". I hope there are a lot more suits filled. If nothing else it sends a message to apple

 

[bababoey14]

This is getting completely out of hand. Like anyone deserves compensation for buying a phone and then voluntarily keeping it even though they have a problem with it. As others have said, if you don't like it, return it. Problem solved.

Well the Apple should have to pay for me to get out of my At&t contract as well....they are a selling a device that should be a PHONE first and if you can't hold it a certain way...that's false advertising. They needs to tell the buyer....your phone might not work if you try and hold it lol. Apple needs to be forced to fix this some how and if it takes law suits....good

 

[schwell]

Finally! Apple and AT&T deserve this. I'm so happy this is happening. There needs to be many many more of these. I hope they get sued for everything they've got (not gonna happen i know). This is what they get for denying the issues.

Another intelligent MacRumors post. 🙄