Apple Being Sued for Not Delivering Texts to Android Users

It happened to my Dad. Used an iPhone 4s and when the contract was up, switched to a Galaxy Note 3. He would not receive some texts occasionally from my family members that still used iPhones because of the iMessage thing. There are work arounds, where the sender has to tap the message they sent and pick the option to send it as a regular text and not iMessage. That seemed to fix the problem my dad had.

Not sure if this would warrant a lawsuit though, to me it seems like the lawsuit requiring McDonalds to put "hot" on their coffee cups cause some person got "hurt" from either drinking/spilling coffee on them and did not "know" coffee was hot.

 
The only issue I've had with my iphone is I can text my husband on his windows phone, or text anyone else non-apple and I usually have to hit resend like 5 times because it will give me a failure to send message (we live in a semi-deadzone), but if I message my cousin or someone with an iphone, it goes through instantly. I always just figured it was the area we live in reception area and that iPhones can text through each other on their own server or something (not sure if this is correct or not, just what I've always thought)
 
Only issue that I have seen was with Bluetooth.  A coworker and I tried to connect our phones because his iPhone couldn't connect to the work phone.  He was trying to transfer a picture and didn't have a cable to connect to the computer.  We have both connected to other phones however for both of us this was the first time iPhone to a Samsung and it wouldn't work.  I really hope that was we just couldn't get it working for some reason and not that Apple or Samsung set it up so you can't connect them.

 
ZerotypeX said:
Not sure if this would warrant a lawsuit though, to me it seems like the lawsuit requiring McDonalds to put "hot" on their coffee cups cause some person got "hurt" from either drinking/spilling coffee on them and did not "know" coffee was hot.
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To be fair, they had to go the hospital for (I believe) third-degree burns.
 
DNukem170 said:
To be fair, they had to go the hospital for (I believe) third-degree burns.
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8 days in the hospital, skin grafts, and 2 years of continuing treatment. But hey, it was just a little too warm, right?

If anyone thinks her injuries were trivial, I invite them to google image search "McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit injuries" but I'll warn you now, they're a lot worse than you think and I wouldn't be eating when you look it up.
 
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Yeah, I read the Digg article on the McDonald's coffee lawsuit too.  Didn't she only really get half a million or something, as opposed to the 50+ million people were reporting?  And that was just enough to cover the costs.

Back on topic-ish, I've also read about people having problems getting a new phone number that used to be attached to someone else that had an iPhone, and them not getting texts because the iMessage still had the phone number attached to someone else's account, and was rerouting the message because Apple failed to update their files or failed to help.

 
I ran into a few people who had iPhones that issue when talking to me when I got away from Apple hell. All they had to do was delete my text history on their phone, reboot ,and send again and the texts got delivered without issue going forward. That was an early release of iMessage though so maybe there was a local database that phones created when they communicated with another iPhone somehow, instead of a centralized server.

 
I don't doubt the injuries and pain she suffered. Just saying we know coffee is hot and if you should open the lid to add cream/sugar, be careful. Apparently they made a documentary about this case and it's available on netflix for those interested. The documentary is called Hot Coffee.

 
My mom ran into this issue a few months ago when she gave me her iPhone 4S and got a Droid. Texts to her would often take 3-4 tries to go through even selecting the "send as text message" option. Still happens from time to time.
 
Are you sure it has nothing to do with the network itself?  I find it hard to believe that an Iphone can tell what type of the device it is sending it's messages to.  Really not worth a lawsuit if your "Hey baby" text isn't being sent properly.

 
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I think the main thing is that it's apparently a more widespread problem that could probably be easily fixed with a patch to iMessage, but Apple is not doing anything about it even with numerous complaints.

 
The hot coffee lawsuit was one of the worst reported stories ever. Having a Seinfeld episode make a joke of it didn't help any. Anyone wanting to know just how bad the situation was, there is a documentary called Hot Coffee. I was someone who thought it was a joke until I watched it and it blew my mind. Millions in damages were fair compensation.
 
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