http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/03/apple-lawsuit-response/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/03/apple-lawsuit-response/#comment-40779 mbking Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:06:13 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17279#comment-40779 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. 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.

]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/03/apple-lawsuit-response/#comment-40777 questionfear Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:50:20 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17279#comment-40777 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?" 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?”

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