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Do you feel like your iPhone runs out of storage, just so Apple can sell you iCloud storage? Well, there's a class action lawsuit for you. Yesterday, Apple was sued in federal court by a class of plaintiffs alleging that the company engaged in unfair, deceptive, and fraudulent business acts and fraudulent advertising.
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Running Out of Storage On Your iPhone? There's A Lawsuit For That
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You will be divorced within a year.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday January 02 2015, @10:41AM
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02 2015, @12:02PM
Terrible summary with snarky iCloud joke.
The point is that the device's storage capacity is significantly lowered by the OS. (and not properly advertised this fact).
And that every subsequent OS update takes up even more space.
Thus driving you to get a new device because you run out of space.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Friday January 02 2015, @01:44PM
That's not what the actual lawsuit is about. From TFA:
The plaintiffs allege that the harm that flows from the less than advertised capacity on Apple devices is compounded by Apple’s “aggressive” marketing of iCloud, the monthly fee based storage system. In terms that are a bit dramatic, the plaintiffs write “[d]efendant gives less storage capacity than advertised [by about 20%], only to offer to sell that capacity in a desperate moment, e.g., when a consumer is trying to record or take photos at a child or grandchild’s recital, basketball game or wedding.” The complaint further criticizes Apple for not permitting the user to access cloud storage from other vendors, use an SD card or other non-Apple storage units, or freely transfer files between devices and a PC using a “file manager” utility.
It goes on to add that Apple encourages users to upgrade to iOS8 without disclosing how much more storage capacity it will eat up (between 600mb and 1.3GB), then doesn't let users revert back to an earlier version after finding out the hard way how much more room it requires. (I'd say the customers should know better, but considering Apple markets to the most non-technical people fairly aggressively, it seems more like Apple should've known better.)
(Score: 2) by Teckla on Saturday January 03 2015, @02:16AM
It goes on to add that Apple encourages users to upgrade to iOS8 without disclosing how much more storage capacity it will eat up (between 600mb and 1.3GB), then doesn't let users revert back to an earlier version after finding out the hard way how much more room it requires.
I had to delete a lot of stuff in order to "upgrade" from iOS 7 to iOS 8, because the installation process needs a lot of temporary space. After the install, I discovered I lost a good chunk of storage permanently, because iOS 8 is a good chunk bigger than iOS 7.
In addition, I discovered that my iPad 2 is really too slow for iOS 8. Even basic stuff like the software keyboard is really laggy now.
Back when I bought my iPad 2, I think 16 GB of storage for the entry level model was pretty reasonable. Now with Retina apps (which end up requiring lots of storage), and with iOS ballooning in size, it's almost laughable that Apple sells brand spanking new iPads with just 16 GB of storage. And, of course, they really stick it to you when you upgrade to higher storage capacities.
Considering the price of the flash memory that goes into iPhones and iPads has gone down in price something like 50% to 70% in the last 5 years, apps have gotten bigger, and iOS has gotten bigger, it's really obnoxious of Apple to keep selling entry level devices with just 16 GB of storage.
But it makes sense from a profit point of view. Either people will spend far too much for higher capacity storage, or they'll pay for iCloud. Either way, Apple wins. (And customers lose.)
Shame on Apple, imo.