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24HourForums.com > Supported Forums > 24's Money Business > Woman Sues Over Apple's iPhone Price Cut |
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Incensed Over iPhone's $200 Price Cut, Woman Sues Apple for $1M Click HERE for the full story. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she's filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages. Dongmei Li of Queens, N.Y., claimed the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone by a third, from $599 to $399, within two months of the gadget's June debut. I would assume it is legal for a company to change their price anytime they want, but that was poor form I guess for such a cut so soon.
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation 
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24HourNut wrote:  Incensed Over iPhone's $200 Price Cut, Woman Sues Apple for $1M The iPhone has to be one of the most over-hyped products in the history of commerce. IMHO, the initial pricing of the iPhone was just based on the fact that they knew they could charge that much and the Apple faithful would buy. When Apple finally realized that the iPhone couldn't compete with other phones (because there's just not that many suckers in any market) they did the reasonable thing and lowered prices in line with other smartphones. The thing that annoys me about lawsuits like this is the inherent assumption that it's the courts' job to save people from their own stupidity. It's reasonable to protect someone from being defrauded, but it's not at all reasonable to expect intercession when nothing illegal or even unethical went on.
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation
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Here's an article about Apple bricking hacked iPhones with a firmware update. I agree with Dvorak here: There's going to be all kinds of unintended consequences for the phone and software industries. And that's a good thing.
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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bjork73 Pioneer100© Member  Official Forum (T)reasoner
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Brian wrote: Here's an article about Apple bricking hacked iPhones with a firmware update. I agree with Dvorak here: There's going to be all kinds of unintended consequences for the phone and software industries. And that's a good thing. There could and should be lawsuits over the iPhone "bricking" incidents; people are buying products at full price only to have the company that makes the products render them useless because the customer wants to customize the product for which they paid full price! Lots of MP3 players and game systems are also affected by similar issues for people who want to customize them. It's sad the number of things you can "own" in the U.S. without actually OWNING them (books, CDs, MP3s, many consumer electronic products, etc.) 
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation
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bjork73 wrote: It's sad the number of things you can "own" in the U.S. without actually OWNING them (books, CDs, MP3s, many consumer electronic products, etc.) Hi, bjork. I think the iPhone is a whole different animal, as far as this is concerned. I have no problem w/ someone trying to protect their intellectual property (CDs, books, etc.). People who make this stuff deserve to get paid what the market will bear. The difference, as I see it, with the iPhone, is that no one's intellectual property rights are violated by the hacks being put on to it. Even unlocking the phone doesn't necessarily break any contract. That hack allows you to switch networks, but it doesn't somehow get you out of your contract w/ AT&T. If you sign a 2-year (or 3...I forget which one the iPhone has) contract, you're "locked" into that contract, whether or not your phone can technically switch networks. Bricking the phone simply because the buyer wants the freedom to use whatever network they want seems malicious -- especially since, as you point out, customers are paying full price for the phone, even though it's locked. If they're going to charge that kind of money, the phone shouldn't be locked in the first place. To me, this is like Vista formatting your hard drive if you try to uninstall it.
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bjork73 Pioneer100© Member Official Forum (T)reasoner
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Hi, Brian  I guess the intellectual property issues are for a different Bat time on a different Bat channel  But the iPhone "update" (and to a lesser extent, "protections" built into video game consoles and other consumer electronics that destroy the units of those that try to customize) seem illegal, or at least leaving the offending companies wide open to litigation...
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Brian wrote:
Just like when these idiots sue a contractor for selling houses for less than the previous phase, should the manufacturer be able to come after the purchaser when the house, Iphone, etc go up in value. I'm headed to the Capitol if they use my money to bail out these clowns!
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