Judge gives greenlight to class action suit claiming Apple ’broke’ FaceTime
Judge Lucy Koh turned down the motion in a late Friday ruling, according to Reuters, specfically rejecting an Apple argument that the plaintiffs in the case had suffered no financial loss since FaceTime is a free service.
”FaceTime is a ’feature’ of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone’s cost,” Koh said in a footnote of her ruling. ”Indeed, Apple advertised FaceTime as ’one more thing that makes an iPhone an iPhone.'”
After losing a lawsuit to VirnetX whoch claimed FaceTime was violating patents the company began routing calls through Akamai servers, spending $50 million in one six-month period alone. The plaintiffs in the current case charge that Apple disabled FaceTime on devices running iOS 6 or earlier in April 2014, doing so simply because it was able to create a cheaper alternative to Akamai in iOS 7.
Källa: Judge gives greenlight to class action suit claiming Apple ’broke’ FaceTime
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