Apple: Please Note that at no Time, do our Hands Ever Leave our Bodies
Posted on 03 December 2008, at 1:35 pm, by Christopher Spera
I saw this on wired, and I just had to say something… this is just nuts. Apple has responded to a class action law suit filed by a San Diego resident who claims that Apple lied when they said the iPhone 3G is “twice as fast at half the price.” Apple responded by saying,
Plaintiff’s claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive statements were such that no reasonable person in Plaintiff’s position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple’s statements as claims of fact, Apple said in its answer.
Huh?
So I’m an idiot for not believing you AND for believing you…Â You can’t have it both ways. Something is whacked here; and the law suit seems to have some merit, too. Apple hasn’t filed a motion to dismiss it (as it has with just about every other iPhone 3G suit filed against it).
If you remember, I sold my iPhone 3G because I just couldn’t take it any longer. The darn thing dropped calls all the time, every day, out loud. Applications crashed multiple times, every day. It could have been the device. It could have been my market. It was likely a combination of both.
What bothers me the most about this situation is that Apple seems to be playing both sides, and I take issue with that.
What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear what you have to say in the discussion area.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hah! The tailbiting statement from Apple is awesome. “What, we didn’t think anyone would actually believe that 3G is that much faster. Didn’t they see the invisble wink at the end of our commercials?”
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
If I were Apple, I’d fire that lawyer. There are better, more politically correct ways to say the plainiff is an idiot. I’d be the first person to insist that manufacturers be truthful in their advertising, but I don’t think Apple was attempting to be misleading. They are probably guilty of not having a long list of qualifiers associated with the claim, but personally, I don’t need those to get the message and I’d like to think the majority of the population wouldn’t need those either. I just checked my iPhone 3G against an original iPhone and it is indeed a hair better than twice as fast when rendering a web page. I’m sure it isn’t under all conditions, but most of the time, it is. There are a lot of factors that control performance and Apple can’t control them all. I like the fact that when the 3G phone came out and users began to complain about network performance, both ATT and Apple worked together to get to the source of the problem and correct it. I never got that from Verizon and the long list of Windows Mobile devices I went through with them. Unless the complaint is blatantly misleading or causes harm to the user, let them do what they’ve been doing for awhile: creating some nice, innovative products instead of having to spend time and money defending themselves against a money seeking member of the “Entitled” generation. I wonder what this guy does when something really important happens to him.