There's a new lawsuit against Apple that claims it has broken California law by requiring users to only use ATandT with the iPhone
By Captain Maverick
Oct 10, 2007 02:29 AM GMT
Apple Inc. is facing another lawsuit over the iPhone, this time out of California. Timothy Smith filed a suit alleging that Apple has violated antitrust law by requiring the iPhone be used with only AT&T. The suit is asking the court for an injunction against Apple to keep the company from selling the iPhone with any sort of service restriction. The suit is further asking to keep Apple from denying warranty coverage for anyone who has unlocked their phones. The class-actions suit is open expecting other California residents to join in on the action against Apple. The attorney for Smith, Damian Fernandez stated that he believes that there will likely be more than a quarter of a million iPhone users that will join in on the action, and that there will be several thousand of them that have bricks after having unlocked the devices with the currently available software. There have been a few legal actions taken against Apple over the iPhone. One over the inability of the user to replace the battery when it wears out and another was over the $200 price cut Apple enacted last month where the woman who filed the suit claimed deceptive business practices.
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