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iBrick Suit Seeks $1.2 Billion From Apple

Apple has been hit with another lawsuit over iPhone lock-in, this one filed on behalf of a Washington State and a California consumer unhappy with Apple’s attempts to prevent iPhone buyers from doing anything Steve Jobs dislikes. The case states that the recent firmware update deliberately KOed unlocked phones, causing $1.2 billion worth of damage […]

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Apple has been hit with another lawsuit over iPhone lock-in, this one filed on behalf of a Washington State and a California consumer unhappy with Apple's attempts to prevent iPhone buyers from doing anything Steve Jobs dislikes. The case states that the recent firmware update deliberately KOed unlocked phones, causing $1.2 billion worth of damage to the plaintiffs and other parties to be named. According to the suit:

Apple expressly designed its software release 1.1.1 expressly to disable Third Party Apps and to disable any unlocked SIM cards, and to create technical barriers to install new Third Party Apps or to unlock the SIM cards.

iPhone lawsuit seeks over $1 billion in damages [MacCentral]