Apple is already dealing with a very public lawsuit against shady Mac Cloner Psystar, as well as a pending class-action lawsuit filed in San Diego. A new lawsuit claiming poor iPhone 3G performance adds to the list of legal battles.
The lawsuit filed in San Diego last week alleges that Apple, and its carrier partner AT&T, have knowingly oversold the iPhone 3G, “promising fast speeds only to see a mass of customers bog down the network with devices that themselves are flawed.” Adding to the confounding legal issues, a New Jersey man has sued Apple claiming that its iPhone 3G “drops calls and doesn’t consistently connect to AT&T Inc.’s data network.” On Friday, September 5th, New Jersey native Eulardi Tanseco submitted his lawsuit to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
The following text is taken from the suit filing: “Apple has wrongfully and unfairly deceived its customers by advertising and selling the alleged newer and improved iPhone 3G with the express and implied promise that this consumer product was a reliable and efficient mobile phone,” the lawsuit said. “Almost immediately after purchasing the iPhone 3G, Plaintiff became aware of problems connecting and/or maintaining a connection via the 3G protocol with his new iPhone 3G,” the suit continued.
“Even when Plaintiff was able to connect via the 3G protocol, on many occasions, even while remaining comparatively still in the same physical location, Plaintiff’s data transmission was dropped from the 3G protocol to the much slower EDGE protocol,” the filing stated.
According to the lawsuit, AT&T was included as a defendant because it “failed to advise its customers that the iPhone 3G was not capable of connecting and/or maintaining a connection with AT&T’s 3G network to complete data transmission.”
“Apple specifically represented and continues to represent that the iPhone 3G is ‘Twice as fast. Half the price’ as its predecessor, the iPhone,” said the lawsuit.
So, basically, Mr. Eulardi Tanseco is having the same issues as the rest of the world. I find it rather classless that somebody who was clearly drawn so much to the iPhone 3G (he waited in line on day one), would turn around and file suit against the company that has invented, and made the device available to him. It seems as though this man, frustration aside, is gunning for an ultimate goal here… Money.
We do not wish you luck Mr. Tanseco, we instead wish you would simply return your iPhone to the Apple or AT&T store, and pick up a Blackberry, or perhaps a solid Nokia. But, suing Apple because of the recent iPhone 3G issues, is completely tactless within itself.
[via MacDailynews via ComputerWorld]
