“A US judge has ruled that punters who drop their iPhones, smashing the smartphone’s glass screen in the process, can’t blame Apple for it,” Tony Smith reports for The Register.
“Judge Edward Davila of the San Jose District Court this week rejected a local man’s attempt to sue the Cupertino giant over a cracked iPhone 4 panel, stating ‘it is a well known fact of life that glass can break under impact,'” Smith reports. “The plaintiff, Betsalel Williamson, felt the need to replace his iPhone’s rear face after knocking his phone off the arm of a chair.”
Smith reports, “Williamson wanted the court to force Apple to cough up for the repair work. He said his case showed that Apple’s claims in advertising that the handset’s glass panelling was über-tough were clearly misleading.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dude.
So people are responsible for their own actions.
Wow!! What a concept
+100
+1000000000
My daughter had hers sitting on a small skinny end table. Someone bumped the table. The phone fell to the floor, followed by the table. The edge of the table top hit the phone squarely on its face, shattering both the front and rear glass. Obviously, Apple’s fault.
I’d say it was the fault of the manufacturer of the table: Sue ’em.
Watch the Obama justice dept sue on behalf of the liberal idiots who make these infantile claims! As far as I’m concerned, they should be fined and banned from all future claims for life! If we were in China, I’d have them caned!!!
You are pathetic…
Judge Edward Davila was nominated by Obama. Twice.
=D
Caning in China? Think you’re mixing up countries along with other facts. Not exactly sure what this has to do with an iPhone faux-claim either. Maybe law firms that take on contingency cases could use the caning.
No caning in China. They just make you go to work in an iPhone factory. 🙂
Singapore provides caning to miscreants in need thereof.
Fuckwit. People were doing this when Bush was in Office, and when Clinton was in Office. It’s a disease that has spread across the Atlantic, encouraging a culture of risk aversion and entitlement. Thank you, America, for one of your greatest contributions to modern society.
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So iMaki, how did you determine the guy was a liberal? Kind of a leap isn’t it? Ii bet it kills you that the great majority of Apple employees are these hated liberals. A poll by a bay area newspaper found that for every $1 these stupid employees are giving to Romney campaign yhe are givig $15 to the commie in the whitehouse. Maybe you would be happier with a more conservative oriented company. Just saying.
Then iMaki should probably consider an extremely conservative Dell computer. You know, the company headquartered in Texas. That should be conservative enough for his or her standards.
The fact that the majority of Apple employees financially support 0bama obviates the need for insults.
lovely satire
An arrogant entitled RepubliTard is just as likely to rant about their busted iPhone screen as a LibTard.
The subject here is irresponsible behavior. Since when has any political party along the dopey 1-Dimensional political scale and a monopoly on irresponsibility? Stupid lives on both sides of the street.
Ahem. Please read: “… HAD a monopoly on irresponsibility?…”
Suddenly, waterboarding looks appropriate.
“Shall we burn him, bury him or dump him?”
“Dump him?”
“Yes, yes, dump him in the Thames!”
So then I get BMW to pay for my carelessly driving one of their cars into a wall? Imagine that.
Dropped my iPhone. Hammered a nail into my hand. Drove into a moving tree. Actually Burned myself with Hot coffee- from McDonald’s, of course. Broke my foot when your nuts slammed into it.
“I hate when that happens.”
The actual quote is “I hate when I do that.” It’s funnier because it’s ironic.
“Common sense is not so common.”
– Voltaire
and since then apple has introduced applecare+ …. i win 😉
WOW -Sad
Are there any adults here today?
Diogenes didn’t even slow down when he walked by…
😆
No disrespect to the judge but why the fcuk does he need to establish a common sense fact that should not be in court in the forst place. If you damage your personal belongings then you are responsible, not the manufacturer. Imagine car companies being sued by such idiots 😡
because theres more the the case then two paragraphs…
more to the case* … ie has anyone here actually read the motion to dismiss or are we all just pretentiously pretending to know the specifics of the situation?
I mean if you just sit back and squint a little this thread looks like it belongs on dailytech…
Apparently you have no idea of how our court system works. Anyone can file a lawsuit against anyone else at any time. Pay the fees, write a complaint in the proper format, and file it. Serve the other side. Now the judge has to address it, and the defendant has to file to defend itself.
In this case, it appears as if the system worked properly and this guy got his *ss handed to him for filing such a stupid claim. Hopefully the judge awarded attorneys’ fees to Apple as well, which I’m sure were juuuuuust a bit more than the cost of a new iPhone.
So you read the motion to dismiss? or is this conjecture?
Maybe if this guy had went to an apple genius and with a positive attitude, explained what happened, might have had a chance that they would fix it gratis. It has happened before, but not with sue happy assholes.
Sweet
While I agree with the judge, I have to wonder what Apple was thinking when they made an object that is prone to dropping not just one but both sides out of glass that is also completely smooth, heavy and dense?
My iPhones always go right from package to case.