In Australia, Apple Fined $2.5 Million For '4G' Advertising Claims

Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "Apple has agreed to pay a $2.25 million (AUD) fine (along with 300k legal costs) to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission for misleading advertising. Apple misrepresented their iPad product as being a '4G' device, when in fact they're only compatible with a very small percentage of 4G networks around the world. The Age online has the full story."

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Re:Judge wants more than the $2.5mil

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Show me the deceptive Apple marketing. What you are complaining about is the name Apple uses for their product, "The iPad WiFi + 4G" is the name. I don't drink, but American consumers of "Matilda Bay" alcoholic beverage aren't in the least bit deceived by the name, and bent out of shape when they discover that it is not, in fact, bottled liquid directly out of some romanitic Australian body of water. Neither are we confused about what The Australian is... which is to say a newspaper and not, in fact... some human trafficking enterprise... and so neither should Australian consumers, especially technology consumers, be deceived into believing that the name of a product is the same as deceptive marketing. It isn't snake oil. Its a piece of technolgy, and the name is not a lie.