“Apple Inc. has settled out of court a 10-month-old lawsuit over its displays. Terms were not disclosed, and Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment,” Eric Gwinn reports for The Chicago Tribune.
“Two California professional photographers filed a class-action suit last May, saying they were duped into buying MacBook Pro notebooks by Apple’s claim that the MacBook and MacBook Pro could display millions of colors,” Gwinn reports. “‘The displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as ‘dithering,”’ the lawsuit said.
“‘They made a misrepresentation,’ said Peter Polischuk, attorney for Greaves and Gatley, referring to Apple,” Gwinn reports. “A clerk in the San Diego County Superior Court said this morning that Polischuk had called to say the suit had been settled. Polischuck said the plaintiffs didn’t pursuit [sic] it further because it was difficult to find other people who were wronged because they had bought Macs solely based on the ‘millions of colors’ claim.”
Full article here.
Sure beats workin’ for a livin’!
Well, that’s a relief.
Did they settle for pennies on the color?
Next up, illegal use of a manilla envelope.
They had me at 64,000.
Am I on crack?? I thought it was only the MacBook that fell into this category not the MacBook Pros..
Any sobering comments?
Top 10 reasons to sue Apple for “Millions of Colors” claim:
#10 – Judge can only count up to 999,999.
#9 – Photographers are a protected species in California.
#8 They are stupid but greedy = the “Me” generation.
#7 I’m sexy
#5 Lawyer needs a new BMW
Ironically, one of the photographers shoots all his shots in B&W;because it “offers a more artistic value”.
# 6 Because I have nothing else to do.
# 4 My funny looking neighbor Steve Ballmer thought it would be a good thing to do.
I purchased my Amiga 500 because it displayed 4096 colors when other computers had green and black. However, I later found that that was only in HAM mode, which was a limited use screen mode. Can I sue Commodore, Escom, Gateway, Amiga Inc and Hyperian?
Why only sue Apple? Any monitor with 24-bit is capable of displaying millions of colors, but not all at once. Besides, the human eye could not detect them all anyway. These photographers must not be able to make money on photography.
#3 It was settled out of court. Steve Jobs met these guys and gave them his number 4 stare and they ran away.
# 3 There is no step three.
steve jobs is grate
#2 Their last lawsuit, “Firewire — there’s a wire but no fire” didn’t go too well.
And the number one reason to sue Apple over Millions of Colors:
Stickers, lots of stickers!
@ Ampar. Step “three”? Apple is becoming more ecological?
#1 Your an American and you love to abuse your FUBAR legal system.
#0 – They originally bought a vista powered Dell
can cameras even capture “millions” of colors? why do they give a crap? seriously people, grow up!
Each pixel on a screen can only show 3 colors. Red, blue and green. The rest is magic. The percentage of each of those 3 colors determines the pixel color seen by the eye. Further magic occurs when the pixel density is low and the color of the adjacent pixels come into play and fools your eye even more.
Nevertheless the LCD screen is only physically capable of showing red, blue and green. The millions of colors on a low pixel density screen as well as a high pixel density screen is produced by tricks played upon your eyes.
There really was no case. I bet if Apple paid anything, they helped pay the Photographer’s Lawyers’ expenses.