Lawsuit for iPhone 4G problems

Jlister at Geeks are sexy and Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo report thats there’s an ongoing lawsuit for problems related to iPhone 4G (full articles at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/07/01/iphone-4-problems-theres-a-lawsuit-for-that/ and at http://gizmodo.com/5577010/first-iphone-4-class-action-suit-filed-against-apple-and-att).

The article says that “[…] 

The lawsuit formally names Kevin McCaffrey and Linda Wrinn of Maryland as the plaintiffs. If the application to become a class action case is successful, there’d be a single trial where the outcome would apply to any US iPhone 4 buyer who added their name to the case.

Whatever the merits of the case, it’s fair to say the lawyers involved are going full throttle. They’ve come up with nine different claims against Apple:

• General negligence (they should have known the problem would occur)
• Defect in design, manufacture and assembly (they didn’t make a working phone)
• Breach of express warranty (they said the phone worked)
• Breach of implied warranty for merchantability (whatever they said, it should have worked anyway)
• Breach of implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose (seriously, it’s a phone, it should still get a signal when you hold it)
• Deceptive trade practices (it didn’t work and they took our money anyway)
• Intentional misrepresentation (the dude in the commercial was holding the phone normally, and they didn’t mention the whole not working deal)
• Negligent misrepresentation (OK, a little mistake we could live with, but come on, a phone that doesn’t work when you hold it?!)
• Fraud by concealment (two hundred bucks, a monthly fee, and still it doesn’t work?)

[…]”

While I think there’s enough to discuss with Apple attitude, I don’t really like this kind if lawsuits, because seems to me that go beyond the simple discussion between customer and provider of a good.

Why are those people suing Apple or AT&T: to get back the money of they telephones or to claim some more money as a damage (in this case for what?)

Don’t we all have more serious reasons to have class actions (oil spills, violence at G20, climate,…) than problems arising from the iPhone?

This post as a comment at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/07/01/iphone-4-problems-theres-a-lawsuit-for-that/#comment-255990 and at http://gizmodo.com/5577010/first-iphone-4-class-action-suit-filed-against-apple-and-att

Problems and opportunities

Problems are only opportunities in disguise.

Anonymous

Government and problems

Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.

Ronald Reagan

Developing countries e-waste

Ben Coxworth at Gizmag (http://www.gizmag.com/author/ben-coxworth/) informs us of a study from American Chemical Society that says within next 20 years e-waste from developing countries will double those from developed ones (full article at http://www.gizmag.com/developing-nations-ewaste-to-double/14951/, original report at http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/es903350q).

“[…] They predict that in 20 years, developing nations will be discarding 400-700 million personal computers annually. Developed nations, by contrast, will be throwing out 200-300 million a year. This increase in e-waste will be due not only to increased computer ownership, but also to technological advances causing computers to become obsolete faster […]”

Of course is a dangerous situation, but should not be misunderstood: if the trend will be confirmed ad infinitum, will e covered by waste in a century or less.

I think we faced a lot of problems and errors in our society. We have the due to make those achieving development (which is a right and an opportunity at same time) avoiding the same errors we made.

Recycling, green power, and everything needed to safeguard the planet are things we need to learn and transfer to those coming after us.

This post as a comment also at http://www.gizmag.com/developing-nations-ewaste-to-double/14951/

Hammers and nails

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Maslow

Complex problems and simple solutions

For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Anonymous

Grossman's Misquote

Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.

Grossman