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Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch

Posted by Soulskill on from the false-barriers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard about iPhone users switching over to Android-powered phones and no longer being able to receive text messages from friends and family still using iPhones. Well, a woman with exactly this issue has filed a lawsuit against Apple, complaining that '[p]eople who replace their Apple devices with non-Apple wireless phones and tablets are "penalized and unable to obtain the full benefits of their wireless-service contracts."' To be specific, '[t]he suit is based on contractual interference and unfair competition laws.' She is seeking class action status and undetermined damages."

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  1. Re:good by p.g.king · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah I've looked all through my Galaxy S4 and can't find this iOS settings menu you speak of. Not that'd it'd help, since it's about the people sending me the texts...

  2. She'll lose by jbolden · · Score: 1, Troll

    Let's see the evidence that Apple has

    1) She at the time she bought her iPhone specifically setup an iCloud account and asked Apple to tie the messaging on a specific phone number to Apple's servers / her iCloud account.
    2) She never notified Apple that she wanted them to stop doing that for her phone number.
    3) She never went to the support site and disassociated the device she is no longer using from her account.

    So in other words she told a computer to do something until she told it to stop, and never told it to stop. In what possible world will a court rule that "unfair competition?" This is a total BS lawsuit. Quite literally she could log onto support.apple.com and fix the problem in under 30 seconds.