I think my only issue is that enabling the feature is irrevocable. According to the lawsuit, at least.
But, suing them...?
Yeah, that's not a valid reason to sue a company. At all. You can't sue a company for having a product that is designed differently than you want it to be.
Implementing a crippling feature after purchase that is non-revokable? I'd say that's grounds for a lawsuit.
Imagine if your steam account required login every day and it took a chunk of time for the code to arrive in your email, that's gonna get in the way / annoy you enough to be worth while.
Lawsuits arn't only about getting money, it's about getting the actual issue changed.
Lawsuits like this are fairly common against Apple, and they have a history as far back as the 'holding your iPhone 4 in a really weird way may decrease reception' lawsuit after its launch
Um by "really weird way" do you mean touching the edges of the phone?
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Well you can actually. If you have an agreement with a company for a certain thing and they give something that's not that thing you can sue. The issue is the plaintiff is going to have to show this has caused him/her financial damages as they unlikely have a case for punitive damages.
I can understand the complaint that you're not able to remove the two-factor authentication afterwards, though I'm not sure if even that grants a lawsuit. Unless the EULA states otherwise I'm pretty sure Apple have the right to make any kind of decisions on their software.
In that case it was an actual hardware flaw iirc
People, at least in America, oppose software's garbage EULAs all the time. EULAs are not proper, legal binding contracts because hammering "I accept" on a verbose, and literally impenetrable document, with no possible negotiation or legal counsel present, is not an acceptable contractual agreement for a product or service that is already paid for.
Likewise, people do not necessarily have to show real financial loss in this case. They just have to make a compelling argument to the judge or jury (depending) that Apple has put an undue burden on it's users, that unfairly or wrongfully limits their use of the product or service they already paid for.
This feature is opt-in and gives you 2 weeks to revert your decision. This case will get thrown out.
I had an on-launch iPhone 4, you could reproduce it by specifically holding the specific edge (not all edges) of the phone with your palm, which was really awkward, and it didn't even cut the whole signal, only slightly reduced reception. The real issue is that the phone displayed your connection being cut (no bars!) so people freaked out and was the primary reason for the lawsuit, which Apple fixed by just updating the software to more accurately display the signal quality. The issue also didn't come up at all when using even the thinnest case.
As much as Apple makes awful decisions and terrible phones nowadays, the iPhone 4 was actually really good and this issue was pretty minor all things considered.
being able to turn on a feature and just never be allowed to turn it off again is a bad design choice
even if it's for security, it adds restrictions on what a user can do with their own device
i'm torn because the list of legal complaints is over the top and exaggerated to hell, it feels like the guy's making noise just to make noise.... but the alternative is posting on a support forum & if you're lucky, getting a volunteer community admin to notice you and say Sorry, You Cannot
obvs this case isn't gonna go in this person's favor but taking the legal route at least means apple's forced to acknowledge this
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