It never ends for Apple,
does it? The tech magnate is facing another lawsuit, even though it is still
battling Samsung in the iPad design trial. The company is being accused of misrepresenting
its flagship device’s storage for marketing purposes, saying that iOS 8 changes the amounts of storage users
have left.
This is a very controversial trial, and the class-action
lawsuit refers to the storage space that iOS 8 takes up. In order to upgrade older Apple devices to iOS,
you need at least 740MB of free storage space, which is quite a lot, especially
for older devices which have less storage available. The main complaint here is
that Apple advertises its device under a certain storage variation, which is
reduced by almost 1GB when the update hits your device. Of course, it’s pretty
absurd to sue a company for this, but Apple should indeed specify this when
advertising their devices. In the lawsuit, the iPod touch is given as an example,
where 3.7GB is taken from its initial 16GB by default, representing 23.1% of
the total storage. The same calculation is applied for the iPad Air, which has
21.3% memory occupied by default, and the iPhone 6 Plus, which has 20.6%.
Some may consider that it’s unfair to charge customers full
price for a device that has 16GB for instance, when 3.7GB of that is filled by
default. That’s reasonable, but then again, every device needs a certain amount
of memory for its software, which is in fact included in the device. The
lawsuit is based on the fact that upgrading customers could not foresee the
huge memory consumption, and thus lost a chunk of their memory without knowing
about it. Another argument is that Apple is doing this on purpose to promote
its own iCloud storage system, which is a premium service that allows you to
store your files, photos, and other things, without worrying about the memory.
