“Apple Inc. won a ruling beating back a group lawsuit sought by a former iPhone user who claimed the company’s messaging system interfered with delivery of texts after she switched to an Android-based smartphone,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg.
“Plaintiff Adrienne Moore said in her complaint filed in San Jose, California that Apple’s iMessage retains text messages sent from other users of Apple devices and wouldn’t deliver them to her Samsung phone running on Google Inc.’s Android operating system,” Rosenblatt reports. “U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Tuesday ruled the case can’t proceed as a group lawsuit because it’s not clear enough that all proposed members of the suit suffered an inconvenience due to any ‘contractual breach or interference’ stemming from the iMessage system.”
Rosenblatt reports, “The ruling is a win for Apple because allowing the case to proceed stood to increase the iPhone maker’s potential costs in defending the case, and could have given plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a deal.”
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Heh Luuuci…
The total number of “downgrades” who went from iPhone to android is so small that the class would have been too small for a valid case.
For those few, though, the problem was very real and very frustrating. An iPhone owner has no way of knowing that his iMessages aren’t delivered. Everything behaves as it should, but nothing happens. Nothing was there in the code to verify that the recipient of that iMessage wasn’t on iPhone any more. For apple’s developers, it was a hypothetical scenario not worth making an effort to address. After all, who would ever move back from iPhone to android? Except, there were a few legitimate scenarios, and those cases ended up extremely frustrated.
Goodbye Apple! Dropping like a rock this morning.
ahah… you wish this was a goodbye… You must have quite a sad life, don’t you?
What are you talking about? It’s up over $2 right now.
Weird. Stock is up 1.6% right now. You must have funny rocks . . . .
Bathe in the DOOOOOM!!!
Goes to show you want a JOKE WallNut Street has become these days. Nothing is real. It’s all a puppet show.
Kill me grammar Nazis! Goes to show you WHAT a…
Written without the influence of caffeine.
However positive or negative this current decision is, I am still amazed that in USA companies can get “personal judges” that rule basically everything about them. This should not be the case; this system has to be fixed.
Is it April 1st? LOL Well good, finally a well justified decision.
Maybe Samsung is no longer paying her, thus her ‘sensible’ decision.
Samsung can no longer afford to pay her.
In any case, Apple corrected the bug involved with this situation and apologized. Bleeding edge first world technology problems.
She must have seen the ghost of Apple, past, present and future.
We could only hope.
Well I guess part of Samsung’s cost-cutting is taking Miss Judy off the payroll.
Whoops. I meant Miss Lucy.
Depending on the number of people that were on the plaintiff side of the class action that will continue in separate cases the ruling could possibly cost more for Apple and the plaintiffs.. Lawyers win! 😛