[jdeane]

It amazes me that there is very little concept of personal accountability left in the world. why must everything be someone else's fault.
read the specifications and make informed decisions. don't run out, spend your money and then - because it doesnt live up to some invented level of performance - whinge and bleat and make it somneone else's problem.
there ARE circumstances where NEGLIGENCE should be punished, but in my view there should be NEGLIGENCE not simply a failure to anticipate every possible nuance of performance that someone MAY find to be not acceptable.
my mind is drawn to the unspeakably ridiculous litigation against macdonalds for the coffee in the lap incident. in which universe is coffee normally sold COLD.
i guess the macdonalds example is at the lunatic fringe of the issue i am discussing here, but it serves to illustrate the point that one should take some responsibility for one's acts. it cannot be reasonable, in my view, to behave recklessly (and i include in this spending many dollars on a device without understanding the extent to which it will suit my needs in the environment i am going to use it in) and then expect someone else to foot the bill and certainly maybe to pay any damages for my lack of attention to that suitability.
the iphone literature and the realities of 3G are well known to everyone who has eyes to see and read.
there are NO guarantees that any mobile device on any technology will perform to the general specification. there are too many unknowns and complexities.
anyone who doesn't understand this is probably better off not buying technology.
i wonder how many people actually get the exact miles per gallon cited in the specifications for urban (etc) cycle. the idea of these numbers is to give the user an IDEA of the kind of performance they might expect compared to a similar device, be it a car or a phone.
the iphone is a great device. sure it has limitations. but that is exactly what a sane person would expect for something at the cutting edge of technology.
get real people and take responsibility for your own decisions.

[ggibson913]

I agree that the iPhone suit is pretty frivolous, I have an iPhone 3G and have expeirenced but no 3G access and Dropped calls, I am still happy with it because I understand that there are dead areas near my home and that 3G was not a guarantee as I checked the coverage map prior to purchasing the iPhone.

I have to disagree about the McDonald's lawsuit. The woman recieved 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her legs because the coffee was ludicrously hot. So in that instance I would say she had a right to sue.

[Wondercow]

jdeane said:

my mind is drawn to the unspeakably ridiculous litigation against macdonalds for the coffee in the lap incident. in which universe is coffee normally sold COLD.

This has got to be the most misunderstood litigation in the entire world. The case was never about an expectation that the coffee should be served cold, but that, among other things, the coffee is purposefully sold at temperatures that make it unfit for consumption. Do expect that a beverage sold to for immediate consumption in a car would cause 3rd degree burns in under FIVE seconds?

Maybe take some time to learn the actual facts of the case and then decide if it's as ridiculous as it seems now. (I should add that I don't mean that in a sarcastic way; media the world over misrepresented that case.)