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Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries
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."
But if he pulls it off, maybe it will open the doors to suing printer companies for shitty cartridges that are too replaceable.
Wow. I'm a law student, so I like to think I understand that people can and will sue over anything. But Wow. This is shameful.
This is typical Apple. Let's make the device useless in a year so they have to buy another one. And they call MS evil...
WAAAAAAAAHHHH!
Come ON you homosexual deviants in Cupertino. QUIT FUCKING AROUND and update your fucking software every so often. You mincing faggots are worse than Debian...
Although he probably shouldn't win this trial, You would thank that Apple would have learned their lesson by now. With all the complaints about iPods having non-user-replaceable batteries, you would think that they would have changed the design. Especially on a cell phone, as I have never had a cell phone who's battery laster more than 1.5 years, and I'm not even a heavy user. Also, the fact that most people cannot be without their phone for a week while it's being repaired. If you can't listen to your music, it kind of sucks. If you can't contact any of your business contacts, or have to wait by a landline, or get a loaner phone, which probably doesn't have all your calendar and address book information, that a lot worse.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
...that really perk up my Monday mornings with a full serving of outrage and indignation.
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A new Apple iThingy with a sealed in battery! No. You're kidding! Go on.
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"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
Release an official statement.
Mr X should return his iphone for a refund. Call us.
Spoken like a true fanboi.
Hopefully there is someone who cares about you enough to intervene, and have you deprogrammed. A good first step would be to remove the Apple logo bumper sticker from your Volkswagen "New Beetle". Good luck!
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Fuck off, cocksucker.
Everything about apple flat out s u c k s
Ah yes, because selling 7,500 iPhones per hour in the first 30 hours of its release is "crappy".
hey faggot.
there are no phones out there that have even close to similar functionality that are smaller. only the samsung blackjack comes close, and it's battery is HALF the capacity.
so shut the fuck up yourself, cocksucking homo.
apple whore...how much are you being payed to praise their latest godsend.
btw, the apple warranty people suck. It took me four hours on the phone and five escalations (can I talk to your manager...can I please talk to someone in the United Dtates...) to get my battery replaced in my ipod. I was even nice for the first two hours. Plus two weeks with no ipod. All that crap i had to go through after paying for a $70 warranty? You gotta be kidding me.
If I ever buying another player, i'm getting a Zen or some other independent.
Wow, again !? Dave Schroeder replying in less than 1 minute in a Apple-apolegetic manner to a Scuttlemonkey news?
Don't Slashdot users mind this potential collusion without a complaint !?
First of all, it is a fully functional browser, it's just not extensible with plugins.
Secondly, standard practices give rise to reasonable expectations. If every single phone on the market has a replaceable battery, then a replaceable battery is a reasonable expectation. It's a reasonable expectation that a car will come with a fuel tank, that your lamp's light bulb will be replaceable, and that your refrigerator will keep your food cold enough to delay spoilage. If that's not the case, you expect to be notified.
Thirdly, to address the GP, it's not always about replacing a battery that doesn't hold a charge. Plenty of people carry a spare battery for their electronics, especially for travel.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
No, they didn't lose a sale. You were never in the target group. You choose butt-ugly with user-replaceable battery, I choose awesome looks where I have to use tools and solder to replace the battery.
No need. That's already covered in the iTunes EULA.
You DID read the EULA, right?