Seven years after being processed for the first time for the same reason, Apple is about to return to court for publicizing a storage capacity on their devices that do not correspond to the available capacity. In 2007, the problem was the iPod Nano eight gigabytes. Now is the last version of the operating system of the company, iOS 8.
Two Miami US, Florida, presented on the penultimate day of the year a complaint in the district court in San Francisco, California, accusing Apple of misleading and violate laws of consumer protection and competition. Paul Orshan a nd Christopher Endara want compensation for all 16GB devices holders.
According to the lawsuit, iOS 8 can take up between 18.1% (iPhone 5s) and 23.1% (iPod ) storage capacity of handsets sold, which deprives them of a considerable part of the space available for its users. Orshan and Endara argue, therefore, that Apple should be clearer in how propagandeia.
The complainants say it is “truly ironic” that the operating system has been touted as “the largest ever “(in Portugal, the slogan was” iOS has never been so great “). “Of course, Apple did not refer to the literal size of iOS 8, which seems to be all disclosed in bulky marketing materials extolling the supposed virtues of iOS 8″ support.
“The inaccuracies and Apple omissions are deceptive and misleading because they omit relevant facts that the average consumer would consider when you were considering buying your products, “reads the process. But Orshan and Endara go further and accuse the company of deceiving customers deliberately to impose them their storage service.
When the devices reach the limit, the owners are encouraged to subscribe to one of the iCloud plans , the online storage service company. The complainants argue that, when faced with this situation at times they want even register – “in recital at basketball game or the marriage of a son or a grandson” -, users end up accepting spend a few more dollars in service.
Moreover – and illegally, according to the reading of these two Americans, for breach of competition law – that Apple does not allow the use of data storage services and file transfer of services by other companies.
The technology giant led by Tim Cook has not commented on the process of bases, which is similar to what the company itself faced in Canada between 2007 and 2012 (turned out to be filed) and a Another more recent, brought in 2012 against Microsoft concerning the storage capacity of the first Surface models.
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