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Apple Sued Over 'Lacking' Macbook Display
qu1j0t3 writes "Business 2.0 reports that two MacBook owners have filed a class action lawsuit charging Apple with deceptive advertising, as well as misrepresentation and unfair competition over the use of the phrase 'millions of colors' to describe the capability of the LCD displays in MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. The article likens the complaint to an an angry forum thread, and is more than a little bit skeptical of the plaintiff's motives. Perhaps it's their uncanny attention to detail. From the filing: 'The reality is that notwithstanding Apple's misrepresentations and suggestions that its MacBook and MacBook Pro display millions of colors, the displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as dithering, which causes nearby pixels on the display to use slightly varying shades of colors that trick the human eye into perceiving the desired color even though it is not truly that color.'
While this sounds like a ridiculous lawsuit, I have some hope it'll cause Apple to be generally a bit less cavalier with their advertising claims in future. It's one thing to emphasise your product's strengths, but I don't think it's on to mislead punters by going around making implications like "PCs are attacked by 114,000 viruses a year."
The man has a point, only it has not been taken far enough. He's targeted the wrong people. This needs to be taken higher up. We should all sue God because what we peceive as a color is really a combination of three types of cones of DIFFERENT COLORS firing off, which then lies to us and makes it seem like there is a single different color. This is clear misrepresentation of the facts and we should not let this kind of thing slide.