The single thing that would improve the court system is a method to streamline the case issues early in the process to reduce attorney time. The resulting surplus of attorneys would reduce marginal cost and for the case total cost.
[doublepost=1486140305][/doublepost]Why does it even matter. Just upgrade.
Christina Grace of California has filed a new class-action lawsuit that alleges Apple broke FaceTime in iOS 6 to force users to upgrade to iOS 7, reports AppleInsider. According to the lawsuit, Apple forced users to upgrade so it could avoid payments on a data deal with Akamai.
The class action found its genesis in internal Apple documents and emails disclosed in the VirnetX patent infringement lawsuit, which eventually ended in Apple paying $302 million after a retrial. Apple used two connection methods when launching FaceTime in 2010: a peer-to-peer method that created a direct connection between two iPhones and a relay method that used data servers from Akamai.
When Apple's peer-to-peer FaceTime technology was found to infringe on VirnetX's patents in 2012, Apple began to shift toward Akamai's servers to handle iPhone-to-iPhone connections. A year later, Apple was paying $50 million in fees to Akamai, according to testimony from the VirnetX trial. The class-action lawsuit, pointing to an internal email titled "Ways to Reduce Relay Usage," alleges that the growing fees were beginning to bother Apple executives.
Apple eventually solved the problem by creating new peer-to-peer technology that would debut in iOS 7. The class-action lawsuit, however, alleges that Apple created a fake bug that caused a digital certificate to prematurely expire on April 16, 2014, breaking FaceTime on iOS 6. Breaking FaceTime on iOS 6, the lawsuit claims, would allow Apple to save money on users who did not upgrade to iOS 7.
At the time, Apple recognized the bug, publishing a support document saying that users who were having FaceTime connectivity problems after April 16, 2014 could update to the latest software to fix the issue. The same support document eventually removed the date "April 16, 2014," according to AppleInsider.
The lawsuit later points to an internal Apple email chain in which an engineering manager mentions that they were looking at the Akamai contract for the upcoming year and understood that Apple "did something" to reduce usage of Akamai's services. Another engineer responded by pointing out iOS 6 leaned a lot on Akamai's services and that Apple "broke iOS 6" and the only way to fix FaceTime was to upgrade to iOS 7.
Apple's developer page pegged iOS 7 adoption at 87 percent on April 7, 2014, nearly 10 days before Apple allegedly broke iOS 6. The lawsuit claims that forcing iPhone 4s and 4 users to upgrade to iOS 7 was harmful to them because the software would allegedly crash more and run more slowly.
The lawsuit is seeking undisclosed damages and to prove Apple violated California's unfair competition law.
Article Link: Lawsuit Alleges Apple Broke FaceTime on iOS 6 to Force iOS 7 Upgrades, Save Money
Do you miss this?
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the EULA you agree to when you buy the services. As services tend to come and go I'm betting Apple has specific language for these situations that people already agreed to.
Well, it's still kind of speculation based on what was put in the lawsuit. What we don't know are all the communications that tell a different story that doesn't support the lawsuit that were intentionally not inserted as they would weaken the lawsuit. We're not looking at some investigative journalism here. We're looking at someone who wants a payday - probably even after the statute of limitations. They're only going to characterize the facts in the way that shows support for their lawsuit.
According to this video, you were right- until now, iOS 10 (on 6s, SE and 7) is the first release since iOS 7 that keeps up with the iPhone 5 on iOS 6. (Note this is beta so final iOS 10 should be a bit faster.)
No. Apple provided an update that fixed FaceTime to those that could not upgrade to iOS 7.
You may want to read up them just a wee bit...
They don't charge for iOS upgrades, but they DO charge for new hardware, and how many times have we heard complaints that older phones don't handle the new iOS well? Not saying I agree with the lawsuit, but it's not a huge leap to see this as a ploy to sell more devices.
The word is "nonsense" and these lawsuits certainly aren't nonsense.
Why is that? Wasn't there an option for an iOS upgrade that would get FaceTime working?
Well, on the iPhone side, nothing after iPhone 5, although iPhone 5 is still supported by the current iOS 10, so in a sense it's still part of "current hardware".
My concern is that Apple created a BUG. CREATED a BUG.
Bugs are bad. No CONSUMER wants to deal with bugs. We want our stuff to "just work". What did Apple do?
They made our stuff not work.
Bad Apple!
Why did they create a bug when most vendors try to stomp them out?
To keep more money to themselves
... and not have to keep paying Akamai so that FaceTime would keep working for people on older devices running older iOS 6 while Apple found a way to move on from that technology in iOS 7.
There could have been a more upfront honest way of going about this but it probably would not have gone over well with customers or Akamai. So they went the sneaky route. I can't comment on the legality of it because I'm not qualified.
But knowing how devious Apple can be by having this set out in front of my face, I'm going to be suspicious if iOS upgrades make my stuff run like utter crap when it's barely a year old.
