“A New Jersey man has sued Apple Inc. over charges that its iPhone 3G drops calls and doesn’t consistently connect to AT&T Inc.’s data network — the second such federal lawsuit filed in the past two weeks,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“Eulardi Tanseco, who submitted his lawsuit to U.S. District Court in New Jersey last Friday, accused both Apple and AT&T of breaking that state’s consumer antifraud law, as well as violating other warranty, breach-of-contract and fraud statutes. Like the lawsuit filed Aug. 19 against Apple by Jessica Smith of Birmingham, Ala., Tanseco’s suit asked the court to grant the case class-action status,” Keizer reports.
“According to the lawsuit, AT&T was included as a defendant because it ‘failed to advise its customers that the iPhone 3G was not capable of connecting and/or maintaining a connection with AT&T’s 3G network to complete data transmission,'” Keizer reports. “Tanseco also accused Apple of duping customers with the App Store, the company’s online mart for third-party applications that users can install on their phones. The apps, said Tanseco, ‘consistently crash'”
Full article here.
The stupid! It burns!!
Seems to me that every cell phone user on the planet could file suit! I’ve never had any cell phone with any provider that didn’t drop calls or crash. Did Apple or AT&T;explicitly claim that iPhone wouldn’t do these things?
Boy, Microsoft’s $300 million ad budget is really going to be stretched pretty thin.
“Tanseco also accused Apple of duping customers with the App Store…”
Nah. I think they’ve been doping us with applications. Aaaah sweet candy iPhone Apps.
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Laws are always quite twisty… But ve read that in USA, suying around can be a well paid full time job! Is it really so?
Give that guy US$500 and make him give his phone back to Apple. Damn whiners.
MaWo: ‘freedom’. As in, ‘Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.’
When you download free apps and don’t read the reviews, meh!
Stupid is as stupid does.
People who don’t understand the real world, and its occasional hiccups, have no business participating in it. It’s too bad Apple and AT&T;couldn’t reserve the right to refuse service to such people.
New Jersey?
That explains a few things.
Maybe he should sue New Jersey drivers. They consistenly crash too.
Just the response I expected. In fact, iPhones on the 3G network in lots of places (notably NYC) have an ATROCIOUS record of dropped calls & data outages that go away when you switch back to EDGE. Regardless of his motivations, this guy is right — Apple & AT&T;are peddling a crap service to a lot of people.
@ Chuck U Farley,
Exactly. From the state where people have a panic attack when they want to make a left turn.
Why don’t these people go after Microsoft? They would have a point there, as well as deep pockets full of ill-gotten gains.
Oh, wait – the $300 million ad budget.
Never mind.
Thanks Al.
Now if he was talking about third party apps not launching because of a system flaw when connecting with iTunes 7.7.1, he would have a point.
See Apple discussion boards or this web site for a fix that includes an iTunes downgrade. (worked for me)
http://ja1me.net/iTunes_and_Oops/the_whole_deal.html
Stay away from this man, little Johnny, you might catch his stupid.
This guy’s just trying to jump on the bandwagon before a judge consolidates the suits into a class action. Unfortunately, consumers won’t see much gain, if any, from such a lawsuit because the money paid out will go to the attorneys and Apple and AT&T;likely will have long since fixed the problems by the time the suit is even heard, if it gets that far.
“monkey see, monkey Do….”
Guido alert!
And where does anyone get the right to sue for this? Where does Apple or AT&T;Guarantee anything this guy is suing for?
It doesnt. this guy doesnt have a case.
I think it’s great. Finally Apple will have to actually write what the phone is not able to do.
It’s not at all whining, Apple is whining and this person has a good reason to do this.
Apple has never pointed out what the phone can not do. I have the first gen. iPhone, and every one was asking for copy past. There discussion forum was filled wit it, and nothing is done.
Apple need’s to work on the iPhone. But I’m sure they will just hype another iPhone soon to be here, Trust me.
Jesper,
We’d like to ‘trust you’, but your English is so bad I can’t tell what the hell you’re saying. Can I suggest you spellcheck next time?
If I openly asked the question: “is Eulardi Tanseco and asshole?”, would he sue me? I’m only *asking* Eulardi, I’m not saying your are a flaming greedy asshole who is exploiting the stupid legal system of the U.S. Not at all.
I’m simply wondering that if I openly wondered such things about you, such as whether you are trying to cash in on the fact that iPhones, like other extremely complex, cutting-edge technology, has bugs; whether you’d try to sue me in Federal court.
I actually can’t use 3G of my iphone. it doesn’t work period, in an area that is supposed to have full coverage.
When AT&T;lost the east cost last week when it came back i had decent 3G reception for 5 days and then every phone call would drop.
it isn’t apple’s fault though it is AT&T;’s, shitty 33G service, as the edge network still works fine.
@sure thing…
When it was discovered that MobileMess doesn’t have true push e-mail, Apple changed the terminology in the appropriate web sites and documentation and mentioned the up-to 15 minutes delay.
However, if you go to apple.com, there’s the new iPhone with the tagline that says, “Twice as fast…” even after all the reports about the issues with 3G connections.
Sounds like deceptive trade practices to me…
@ Gunboat Smith – If the capability is there does that mean it’s not twice as fast?
If a car is twice as fast as it’s previous model, yet we don’t have the roads to support the speed, does that make the car NOT twice as fast?