Apple dodges lawsuit over misleading iCloud storage charges

[iMore.com]

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Apple claiming the company's iCloud pricing is misleading.

Full story from the iMore Blog...

 

[Annie_M]

I'm scratching my head on this one. How does one "not know" about recurring charges when they sign up for additional iPhone storage?

 

[Just_Me_D]

How did it “trick” customers into thinking it’s free 5 GBs of iCloud storage would be enough? If your iPhone is full and you have 6 GBs of data that needs storing on iCloud, how can you assume 5 GB would be enough? Isn’t 6 more than 5? SMH…wow!

 

[FFR]

How did it “trick” customers into thinking it’s free 5 GBs of iCloud storage would be enough? If your iPhone is full and you have 6 GBs of data that needs storing on iCloud, how did can you assume 5 GB would be enough? Isn’t 6 more than 5? SMH…wow!

I guess being tricked by magic isn’t a valid reason to sue a company

 

[EdwinG]

Also, hot coffee is hot.

This lawsuit makes no sense whatsoever.

On one side, no one is forcing you to use iCloud, on the other it’s very clear that iCloud storage is a monthly subscription.

I guess some people are out of this world looking in⁇

 

[anon(41073)]

A seperate lawsuit.

"Instead, according to court filings, the company distributed data among third-party cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft's Azure platform -- a violation of Apple's own iCloud contract. "
. Stored data on 3rd party servers that provide a free service,but billed people for it.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...art-of-apples-14-8-million-icloud-settlement/

 

[Up_And_Away]

Litigation has different ecosystems. There are lawsuits over here where aggrieved parties look for compensation. Over there is the gray area litigation ecosystem. This is law firms that pursue wording litigation. If you ever wondered why it will say “don’t eat the cardboard box” your cookies come in? this is the result from the gray area litigation industry. Generic example: Company X says “if you want more space, there will be a charge”. Litigation begins because they didn’t also say if you “need” more space.
This will be for Apple, Google, Samsung and every other company you can think of. The companies build into their pricing the cost of certain to come gray area litigation (unfortunately we the consumer ultimately pay for it).

 

[Wotchered]

I no way needed more storage, but signed up for the minimum to get an extra security feature, I now forget what !!