Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 30, 2007 @07:20AM from the overly-litigious dept.

UnknowingFool writes "A customer named Jose Trujillo has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone batteries. According to the suit, Apple did not disclose that the batteries of the iPhone were not user-replaceable. Also the plaintiff alleges that the battery will need to replaced every year. When a battery needs to be replaced, the customer will be without a phone for several days unless the customer pays $29.95 for a loaner phone service. Lastly, the plaintiff alleges that the battery information was difficult to find on Apple's website."

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Re:Maybe Not by paeanblack · 2007-07-30 08:18 · Score: 1, Redundant

Every Engineering Department I've worked with would have designed a user-replaceable battery and called it a "common sense" feature.

It's a good thing you don't design pacemakers. It would really suck to fall over and break off the little plastic battery cover.

Wristwatches have forgone user-replaceable batteries for ages. Why does a phone need one? I think your "common sense" is better phrased as "lack of imagination".