MacDailyNews Take: Nine days before Christmas? Whatever damage, if any, will already be done.
AP continues, “AT&T filed the lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta earlier this month and asked for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction to stop the ads. It contends they are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices.”
“The ads show maps of the United States with areas highlighted to depict where third generation — or ’3G’ — network coverage is available. A map of the country nearly covered with red dots is shown to depict Verizon’s coverage, while a map with some blue areas and a lot of blank space is shown to ostensibly display AT&T’s 3G coverage,” AP reports. “AT&T says those maps are misleading because there is still regular coverage in areas where 3G service is not offered.”
Full article here.
Brian Garner reports for AppleInsider, “The judge ruled Wednesday that while the ads may be ‘sneaky,’ they are not misleading, and do not justify any action to take them off the air. The judge did state however, that most TV watchers are ‘semi-catatonic’ and therefore can easily misinterpret information presented.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why, oh, why is all of this craziness happening?! iPhone, bitch.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Edward W." for the heads up.]
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