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Do you honestly expect that they would admit it and face millions of lawsuits ?
by Varloom 3y ago
Do you honestly expect that they would admit it and face millions of lawsuits ?
- eastbound 3y agoOTOH, the French regulator publishing a product removal from market ON THE DAY of the marketing PR for the new iPhone is a distasteful attempt at raining on their parade.
- BossingAround 3y agoI honestly doubt literally anyone in the government cares about Apple marketing
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago“The government” is big. Lots of people, caring about lots of things. Did you want to be less absolute in your claim?
- mikae1 3y agoThe iPhone 12 is a three year old device. I'm not sure what parade they'd be raining on.
- josephg 3y agoAlso there’s a good chance Apple had some wiggle room in deciding the date that the iPhone 12 was pulled from the shelves. From apple’s perspective today sounds like a great day to pull the 12 because people would just assume it’s not available any more now that the 15 is out.
- petemir 3y ago> From apple’s perspective today sounds like a great day to pull the 12 because people would just assume it’s not available any more now that the 15 is out. It's even better because it's not available anymore exactly because of that reason :). You cannot get it in any (online) Apple Store, be it French or not.
- pjerem 3y agoANFR is not the government. It’s a public agency not directly controlled by the government. Nobody in the government cares about the iPhone 12. And concerning the current government, I’m pretty sure they are all owning iPhones, they all would love a selfie with Tim Cook and don’t even know what DAS is.
- durumu 3y agoHonestly it probably has the opposite effect. I can imagine iPhone 12 owners upgrading because they think their current phone is unsafe.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoNo, it's Apple's fault for setting up their PR event just when French civil servants have got back to work after their summer holidays. ;)
- cowl 3y agoOTOH the French regulator should not be even aware of marketing PR days for the hundred pf phones they test so your comment is a distasteful attempt to ascribe a meaning where there is none.
- Zambyte 3y agoTo put "millions" into perspective based on the value of Apple, that is less than a dollar to the average American. Of course, a company doesn't get that large by giving out money with no push back. Just some perspective.
- bee_rider 3y agoIf someone asked me for a dollar in an unpleasant and totally unfounded manner, I’d probably give it to them, even if it was inconsequential.
- w0m 3y agoAnd thus give them more encouragement them to shake down the next person, as well as you again the next time they see you on the street.
- davey48016 3y agoThe nuisance lawsuit business model employed by all of our favorite patent trolls.
- bee_rider 3y agoHaha, I missed a “not,” completely inverting the meaning of my sentence. Oops!
- mardifoufs 3y agoFrance has a huge "cellular EM waves are bad" movement so I wouldn't trust them about this either. It's weird that they are the only country where these iPhones seem to misbehave.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- pjerem 3y ago> France has a huge "cellular EM waves are bad" movement What ?
- smorrebrod 3y agoI don't know the spread of this movement but it does exist. For example, the national electric company deployed a new generation of electric meter (Linky) which can communicate data to your supplier using PLC. This communication of course emits EM waves so some people objected to the installation of this meter.
- w0m 3y agoSounds similar to the '5g rollout caused covid' movement in the states.
- some_random 3y ago