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发帖数: 20761 | 1 Apple's iMessage "Black Hole" subject of class action suit
Posted: 11 Nov 2014, 19:16, by Alan F.Tags: iOS+ Apple+
Apple's iMessage
Just the other day, we told you about a fix that Apple was offering to those
who were losing their text messages in the iMessage "Black Hole". Those who
left iOS for another platform, and took their phone number to the new
handset, were unable to have text messages forwarded to their new device.
Instead, these missives would head to iMessage as though the recipient had
never left iOS. But without an active iPhone, the texts would sit in
iMessage, unable to be retrieved by the person that they were addressed to.
Even though Apple now has a solution for this problem, it is too late for
some people. One woman in California, Adrienne Moore, lost countless
messages in the iMessage "Black Hole," and a judge says that she can proceed
with a class action suit against Apple. Moore claims in her suit that Apple
failed to forward messages sent to iMessage, as a way to keep people from
leaving iOS. That theory was given some merit by the presiding judge.
Speaking of the judge, want to take a guess who was wearing the robes in the
courtroom? If you guessed Judge Lucy Koh, who sat on the bench for the two
Apple-Samsung patent trials in the U.S., give yourself a pat on the back.
Koh denied Apple's request for a dismissal. And while she did toss some of
Moore's claims related to "unfair business practice," she did rule that the
plaintiff can continue with her "tortious interference with contract" claim.
This says that Ms. Moore, by having such a large amount of her texts fall
into the iMessage "Black Hole", was having her contract with Verizon
interfered with by Apple. Clever, right?
The plaintiff can now proceed with a class action suit, which will probably
end up like most class action suits do. After both sides reach a settlement,
the class members will each get a post card with a quarter attached to it,
and the lawyers will take millions in fees. Meanwhile, check out the
official ruling, embedded below for your viewing pleasure. |
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