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“The suit argues [in part]: ‘Indeed, according to the http://www.apple.com website, ‘[r]eading on iPad is just like reading a book.’ However, contrary to this promise, using the iPad is not ‘just like reading a book’ at all since books do not close when the reader is enjoying them in the sunlight or in other normal environmental environments. This promise, like other portions of APPLE’s marketing material for the iPad, is false,'” Walters reports.
Walters reports, “The suit goes on to say that the iPad is “virtually unusable” outdoors in direct sunlight because it turns off ‘sometimes after just a few minutes of use,’ and that nowhere in its marketing or sales materials did Apple warn consumers about this.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Every iPad ever shipped comes with Apple’s “iPad Important Product Information Guide.” It’s also online via Apple.com here. If the claimant and his ambulance chasers had RTFM, they’d have seen this rather crystal clear statement:
Keeping iPad Within Acceptable Temperatures Operate iPad in a place where the temperature is between 0° and 35° C (32° to 95° F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause iPad to temporarily stop working properly. Avoid dramatic changes in temperature or humidity when using iPad, as condensation may form on or within iPad. Store iPad in a place where the temperature is between -20° and 45° C (-4° to 113° F). Don’t leave iPad in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range. When you’re using iPad or charging the battery, it is normal for iPad to get warm. The exterior of iPad functions as a cooling surface that transfers heat from inside the unit to the cooler air outside.
Related article:
Apple sued over claims iPad overheats in warm conditions – July 27, 2010
and mine broke when I tried to fold the corner down to mark my place.
wow that is so ridiculous
i bet there are a lot of sham cases like this
it will get rejected right away hopefully
stupidity continues to reign….this is the antenna-gate attitude …..it doesn’t work exactly like I want it to…don’t take it back…SUE!
it actually works better than a book…..12 books read and counting….maybe apple should sue me to get more money for the device for exceeding its marketing verbiage
And the iPad doesn’t have paper pages where I can stick my favorite Twilight bookmark! I’m gonna sue!
This isn’t about protecting consumers. Certain law firms specialize in shake-down lawsuits. If Apple fights this, no litigants get anything. If Apple caves to the B.S. to just get the nuisance out of their face, customers of the iPad might get a $35 Apple Store credit. But a handful of *special* complainants will split up $350,000 of monetary award, and the law firm of Vulture, Parasite & Leach will get $175,000 plus $500 per over-billed hour.
And these sort of attorneys are *working* and *thinking* about the case (at $500/hr) when their shaving and taking a dump in the morning. So their hourly billings for the “huge” staff they have dedicated to this day & night really helps the partners to buy their BMWs.
Only in America…
And another stupid lawsuit eats away money for no good reason. To the iPad’s benefit I do not lose my page when the wind blows or I drop the book, some one pulls my book mark out….. Sooner or later we’ll get that this needs to stop.
Oh brother. Yet another frivolous lawsuit against Apple.
Solar collectors are black with a glass cover for a reason. Anyone who actually does not understand that black glass will get too hot to touch in direct sunlight deserves to get burnt.
Some lawyers, and nerds, need to get out in the sun more often so they understand the basics of nature a little better.
I can’t rip the pages out of my iPad to wipe my ass. WTF am I supposed to do on a camping trip?
There will be people complaining that the iPad makes their book burning ceremonies impossible next.
Works just like a book to me! Don’t like it? Return it ya friggin’ whiners! Lawyers should have to work 2 days a week as speedbumps!!
Attorneys are like guns: If you get into a gun fight, you wanna have a bad-ass gun that makes the others crap their pants.
And just like guns, attorneys really ought to be safely locked away most of the time to keep society safe.
that’s funny my wife just hit me with a lawsuit, cause she can read me like a book.
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How more litigious and inane can we get re “”just like a book.”. And I have had the same message come up, but only when I turned face down on the front seat of my car for about 20 minutes. And the heat was magnified greatly because of the sun shining shining through the windshield and it wa 99 outside that day.
As an attorney myself, I am ashamed that there are se still hoping for the big publicity break on the way to fame and fortune. No large-city, large law firm would touch this case.
We can only hope that as M$’s profits drop that they will not be able keep financing these lawsuits.
just my $0.02
If you create a big block of cheese, every rat that crawls past will try to chew a piece off it.
I would like to see the outcomes of these sorts of suits.
All this curtesy of the millions of lawyer that infest this country, the halls of Washington and the pockets of your politicians.
Judge please throw out this lawsuit under the STUPITY ACT!!
If a customer is that stupId they need to have a restrainig order to prevent them from using high tech.
The US needs to adopt a “Loser Pays” system such as in other countries. This would GREATLY evaporate these silly lawsuits. Of course the Trial lawyers Assoc lobby is so powerful that they would NEVER allow this to happen.
I bet if you threw an iPad at this bozo’s head it would work just like a book.
All the “highly intelligent” people buying the iPad are not fucking retarded enough to misinterupt the phrase “just like a book.” Of course this machine is not going to magically form pages for me to flip
These lawsuits are just disgusting. Will we ever reach a point where judges throw out these absurd cases?
Judges can dismiss cases they find to be frivilous or without merit. The best way to put an end to this is for Judges to start throwing these cases out regularly without compelling evidence otherwise.
Shakespeare said it best: “First, kill all the lawyers”
It reads so much like a book that I have, on more than one occasion, reached up to the top right corner to grab the edge of the “page” in preparation for turning it and then realized what I was doing.