“The complaint [Baltazar v. Apple Inc., 10-03231, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California], filed July 23 in federal court in Oakland, seeks unspecified damages and class action, or group, status,” Rosenblatt reports. “It claims the iPad ‘does not live up to the reasonable consumer’s expectations created by Apple’ because it ‘overheats so quickly under common weather conditions.'”
Rosenblatt reports, “The iPad has a 9.7-inch touch-screen display that lets users read books and magazines, view videos, play games and surf the Internet. In direct sunlight, the tablet ‘turns off, sometimes after just a few minutes of use,’ according to the complaint.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hold the lawsuits! Apple Board member Al Gore is working on the issue. 
Beyond that, every iPad ever shipped comes with Apple’s “iPad Important Product Information Guide.” It’s also online via Apple.com here. If the claimant and his ambulance chasers had RTFM, they’d have seen this rather crystal clear statement:
Keeping iPad Within Acceptable Temperatures Operate iPad in a place where the temperature is between 0° and 35° C (32° to 95° F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause iPad to temporarily stop working properly. Avoid dramatic changes in temperature or humidity when using iPad, as condensation may form on or within iPad. Store iPad in a place where the temperature is between -20° and 45° C (-4° to 113° F). Don’t leave iPad in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range. When you’re using iPad or charging the battery, it is normal for iPad to get warm. The exterior of iPad functions as a cooling surface that transfers heat from inside the unit to the cooler air outside.
Solution: Don’t take your iPad into the sauna?
Is that the Devil himself suing Apple? No wonder it overheats, look where it has to operate!
Don’t preheat your iPad in the microwave.
My girl friend overheats in warm conditions – can I sue?
It’s kind of like reading reviews on Amazon…toss out the 5% best reviews and the 5% worst reviews to get a true picture of the product; this is one of the tossers.
Does MDN slow down in warm conditions? It’s slow to load this morning.
Oh come on. I use my iPad constantly. I’ve never noticed heat.
Just another wannabe frivolous suit that will add more needless hype. What are these space cadets thinking? Living here in Florida in the midst of a heat wave / drought and using 2 ipads daily, hourly in and outside… of course no failures. Bottom line is, if you don’t like a product you buy, then return it. I see noone twisting arms forcing buys……
Whiners are bad enough… cost me $$ and I get more than annoyed
Welcome to the new ILSA: The Insanely Litigious States of America. Will this kind of chicken-crap EVER cease?
I coulda done without the politically motivated MDN take…
but OMFG i put my ipad in a sleeve and i cant see the screen. DESIGN FLAW im suing.
I served sushi on my iPad and now it smells fishy, IM SUING!!!
I think the key to this case is right there in the first sentence:
“Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable technology company…”
Up where I live it get to 40c all the time in summer. I’ll be watching for this when I get mine next month
@Macromancer
“I coulda done without the politically motivated MDN take…”
I second that motion.
Anyone ever heard of the results of these sorts of suits? My guess is they’re mostly fruitless. Has of these greedy rats hit a home run against Apple in court?
Pads are supposed to be soft. The iPad is hard. That’s all wrong.
Direct sunlight is one of the best ways to heat an iPad up pretty quickly. That black bezel just sucks up the heat energy.
I do tend to watch TV/browse the web in the bath however (not porn, honest) so maybe I should be a little more careful with the condensation thing.
Does it overcool in cold conditions?
@Ron lmao sue all women who heat up!!!
Bullspit. I work outside in the middle of summer in a tropical climate and my iPad stays as cool as a cucumber whenever I use it. Most valuable tech company is like a lawsuit magnet.
Politically motivated MDN take?
It appears more and more people coming here have no sense of humor.
It doesn’t run Adobe Flash, so I can’t fry my eggs on it.
I’ll sue!
You can always count on the moron element to sue maybe they can sue the sun for being too hot !!
Don’t hold it that way!!!
Next comes the MSM coverage of this new Apple quality concern…
Overheating iPads threaten Apple’s brand!!!!!!
I can see the Gizmodo headlines now….
We live in a world were these things get way too much attention – way too much….
Newsflash:
Things get warm in warm conditions!
That’s not all Al’s been “working” on:
AL GORE SEX SCANDAL SHOCKER POLICE INVESTIGATE TWO MORE!
November 2nd will be here before you know it. I can’t wait!
We’re going to send a real tingle up fscking Chris Matthew’s biased leg and Oprah will be crying for real this time.