In the US, many users are taking legal action against Apple. They are accusing the company of deliberately destroying the FaceTime app for iOS 6 to force iPhone users to switch to iOS 7. The background is to be a patent dispute from 2012.
In the US, Apple is currently facing a new lawsuit. In it, several users propose to the company to have made the video chat app FaceTime 2014 in iOS 6 unused by an artificially generated bug. In this way, the company would have forced numerous iPhone owners to upgrade to iOS 7, as reported by AppleInsider. Especially on older iPhones like the models 4 and 4s, however, this resulted in sensitive performance losses.
From 2014 Apple developed a new FaceTime app for iOS 7, where the data no longer had to be transferred via external servers. In order to completely bypass the server costs, the group is supposed to have lambed the "old" FaceTime app for iOS 6 deliberately with an artificially introduced bug, according to the application, to the users to switch to iOS 7 and thus also to the new FaceTime app too to force. In support of their complaint, the plaintiffs have submitted several emails from Apple employees to prove that FaceTime was intentionally destroyed in iOS 6. How the process could ultimately end, is still completely unclear at the moment.
In the US, Apple is currently facing a new lawsuit. In it, several users propose to the company to have made the video chat app FaceTime 2014 in iOS 6 unused by an artificially generated bug. In this way, the company would have forced numerous iPhone owners to upgrade to iOS 7, as reported by AppleInsider. Especially on older iPhones like the models 4 and 4s, however, this resulted in sensitive performance losses.
The consequences of an old patent dispute
Background is apparently a patent dispute from 2012. Last year, the iPhone manufacturer was sentenced to a compensation payment of 302 million US dollars, because Apple for FaceTime had apparently violated a patent of the security company VirnetX. To circumvent further complaints, Apple had to outsource the data transmission of FaceTime chats to external servers of the provider Akamai, which however would have cost the service to unimagined heights. In 2013 alone the server costs the group about 50 million US dollar had tasted.From 2014 Apple developed a new FaceTime app for iOS 7, where the data no longer had to be transferred via external servers. In order to completely bypass the server costs, the group is supposed to have lambed the "old" FaceTime app for iOS 6 deliberately with an artificially introduced bug, according to the application, to the users to switch to iOS 7 and thus also to the new FaceTime app too to force. In support of their complaint, the plaintiffs have submitted several emails from Apple employees to prove that FaceTime was intentionally destroyed in iOS 6. How the process could ultimately end, is still completely unclear at the moment.
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