That's ridiculous about the pricing claims. $20 for unlimited data and 200 texts would be pretty reasonable, considering AT&T could charge $40 like other PDA phones for internet and no texts included. Furthermore, Apple charges what it can based on "market demands," and obviously there was enough market demand to warrant a high price premium for the iPhone. No one "forced" the plaintiff or anyone else to get an iPhone as there surely were other devices on the market at that time.
As for the bricked iPhones and whether Apple sufficiently warned users that unlocking or installing 3rd party software would damage the phone and/or voice their warranty is another matter. I don't follow iPhone news that close to know specific details, but a claim could be had with that issue and fair use and lack of warnings.
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C Nguyen @ Oct 8th 2007 5:05PM
That's ridiculous about the pricing claims. $20 for unlimited data and 200 texts would be pretty reasonable, considering AT&T could charge $40 like other PDA phones for internet and no texts included. Furthermore, Apple charges what it can based on "market demands," and obviously there was enough market demand to warrant a high price premium for the iPhone. No one "forced" the plaintiff or anyone else to get an iPhone as there surely were other devices on the market at that time.
As for the bricked iPhones and whether Apple sufficiently warned users that unlocking or installing 3rd party software would damage the phone and/or voice their warranty is another matter. I don't follow iPhone news that close to know specific details, but a claim could be had with that issue and fair use and lack of warnings.