A lawsuit filed this week against Apple alleges that upgrades to the iOS 8 operating system result in you not getting the space that you paid for, and that the company has misled customers about it:
In the legal complaint filed in California, Miami residents Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara accuse Apple of “storage capacity misrepresentations and omissions” relating to Apple’s 8 GB and 16GB iPhones, iPads and iPods. Orshan has two iPhone 5 and two iPads while Endara had purchased an iPhone 6.
They contend the upgrades to the operating system end up taking up as much as 23 percent of the storage space on their devices.
Now I had to admit that I had my challenges upgrading to iOS 8 because I have a 16GB iPhone 5s and I now have less than 1.5 GB of space free. Prior to that, I had over 2GB of space free. But as far as I am concerned, the lack of space is because I was too cheap to buy a 32GB iPhone 5s and not becasue Apple is trying to screw me on storage. Having said that, Apple perhaps could have slimmed down the OS a bit, or include the option of having an SD card in their iDevices to avoid this problem like most other smartphone vendors. After all, SD cards are cheap and you get a lot of storage for your money. By not doing so, it gives the impression that Apple who gives away OS upgrades for iOS and OS X makes its money off selling hardware and will force its users to upgrade any way they can. Perhaps that is more fact than impression? I don’t know. But perhaps this lawsuit will shed some light on that, if it gets that far.
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Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS 8 Reducing Your Available Storage
A lawsuit filed this week against Apple alleges that upgrades to the iOS 8 operating system result in you not getting the space that you paid for, and that the company has misled customers about it:
In the legal complaint filed in California, Miami residents Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara accuse Apple of “storage capacity misrepresentations and omissions” relating to Apple’s 8 GB and 16GB iPhones, iPads and iPods. Orshan has two iPhone 5 and two iPads while Endara had purchased an iPhone 6.
They contend the upgrades to the operating system end up taking up as much as 23 percent of the storage space on their devices.
Now I had to admit that I had my challenges upgrading to iOS 8 because I have a 16GB iPhone 5s and I now have less than 1.5 GB of space free. Prior to that, I had over 2GB of space free. But as far as I am concerned, the lack of space is because I was too cheap to buy a 32GB iPhone 5s and not becasue Apple is trying to screw me on storage. Having said that, Apple perhaps could have slimmed down the OS a bit, or include the option of having an SD card in their iDevices to avoid this problem like most other smartphone vendors. After all, SD cards are cheap and you get a lot of storage for your money. By not doing so, it gives the impression that Apple who gives away OS upgrades for iOS and OS X makes its money off selling hardware and will force its users to upgrade any way they can. Perhaps that is more fact than impression? I don’t know. But perhaps this lawsuit will shed some light on that, if it gets that far.
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