Apple at last offered aneasy solutionthis week to the great unwashed who wanted a way out of iMessage purgatory after switching from iPhone to Android . But that workaround wo n’t help the company in an on-going sound dispute : U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh make up one’s mind Monday that Apple must respond to a class - action lawsuit about the iMessage foul - up in a California court .
Adrienne Moore , a former iPhone 4 proprietor who then shift to a Samsung Galaxy S5 , claims that Apple interfered with her Verizon Wireless contract by fail to let her fuck that texts sent as iMessages from her contacts using iPhones would n’t be deliver to her newfangled Android gimmick . Koh is allow the suit to proceed so Moore can taste to prove that Apple violated a California law against unjust competitor by holding the messages hostage .
Before Apple free its new do - it - yourself tool for deregistering your phone number from iMessages , the company required you to do a SIM switcheroo to inactivate iMessages in your old iPhone , or call Apple living if you no longer had the gadget in your possession . Turning off iMessage keep in an iPhone is beyond slowly , but something many masses do n’t think about before switching to a new headphone .
Moore is search $ 5 million in damages and class - action status , so other former iPhone users incinerate by missing iMessages could profit if she wins . Disappearing iMessages have been an emergence sinceApple debut the messaging characteristic in 2011 , but the company is fighting claims that it should have done more to aid people who are giving up on their iPhones .
“ Apple takes customer satisfaction extremely seriously , but the law does not cater a remedy when , as here , engineering simply does not function asplaintiff subjectively believes it should , ” the company order in a motor inn document , harmonize toReuters .
Judge Koh also preside over Apple ’s recent patent of invention infringement battle with Samsung .
