Another class action lawsuit was recently filed against Apple in a federal district court located in northern California. The consumer class-action claim asserts that Apple has used what amounts to deceptive advertising with respect to the amount of storage that it provides on its iPhones, iPads and iPods. The complaint alleges that the company fails to tell people that up to 23.1 percent of the advertised storage space is actually used for the operating system itself.
The suit claims that instead of providing the advertised amount to users, Apple tries to sell them space in its Cloud. The massive Apple iOS 8 takes up 1.1 Gigabytes of space and it needs 5.8 gigabytes for wireless installation. When it was released, people with older Apples discovered that their units would essentially not work with the new system, or that they would have great difficulty downloading it.
Apple users have complained that their phones have become unusable due to their inadequate storage capacities. It's widely reported that Apple users are effectively compelled to upgrade to newer models. In fact, as the price of the model purchased goes up so does the amount of storage space obtained.
It seems that with the increasing power and versatility of emerging smart phone models, along with the endless array of new apps, the price to be paid is in the need for massive amounts of storage to accommodate the increased activities. The economic toll to customers is taxing, but for Apple it's an economic plus to have customers constantly upgrading from older hardware units. One report estimates that Apple will make $3 billion in 2015 from persons upgrading from older Apple models to the current model. As the pattern continues, it may be that there will be more than one consumer class-action claim filed in the federal courts located in California.
Source: The Huffington Post, "Apple Sued Over Storage-Devouring iOS 8", Alexis Kleinman, Dec. 31, 2014
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