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Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking
An anonymous reader writes "The week's debate over the iPhone 1.1.1 has finally resulted in legal action. InfoWeek reports that on Friday, California resident Timothy Smith sued Apple in a class-action case in Santa Clara County Superior court. The suit was filed by Damian Fernandez, the lawyer who's been soliciting plaintiffs all week for a case against Apple. The suit doesn't ask for a specific dollar amount, but seeks an injunction against Apple, which prevents it from selling the iPhone with any software lock. It also asks that Apple be enjoined from denying warranty service to users of unlocked iPhone, and from requiring iPhone users to get their phone service through AT&T."
Given that there are at least 3 if not 4 different standards for cellphones in use in the US, and that only 2 carriers support
gsm (AT&T and T-Mobile) what good does unlocking the Iphone do. Both gsm providers have horrible customer service and in quite
a few places horrible cell service.
So unless you are planning on traveling a broad and willing to do without lots of the nifty features, what's the point ?
19 scruffy men in turbans killed 3000 people on 9/11.
MOD PARENT UP!!!!
Sorry, but way offtopic.. but any attack on civilians is a crime against humanity..
A lot more than 3000 were killed in IRAQ - a country US retaliated against who wasn't responsible for 9/11. Killing people for defending themselves and their country is still murder. Yes, Saddam was an asshole, but why is it that a country that knows NOTHING of freedom is the one who is trying to be the teacher? Was the oil "security" worth it?
6 American men on just 1 plane murdered many craploads more in a the worlds largest terrorist action in 1945..
Terrorists getting their own back from other terrorists. War and terrorism are on the same level - all of it is fueled by hatred.
There is no excuse for ignorance. Learn to live your life without a scapegoat.
I'm no fan of bombing anyone but it was not a "terrorist" act by any accepted definition of the word; it was an act of war by one nation state against another. How large the bomb, how necessary the action was in retrospect or how repugnant the consequences were does not change that. Let's not mix up accepted definitions just to score emotive points with misleading arguments.