Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is facing yet another new lawsuit, this time regarding the iPad and the speed in which it shuts off due to overheating in direct sunlight.
The complaint, filed July 23 in federal court in Oakland, California, seeks unspecified damages and class action, or group, status. It claims the iPad “does not live up to the reasonable consumer’s expectations created by Apple” because it “overheats so quickly under common weather conditions.”
The iPad has a 9.7-inch touch-screen display that lets users read books and magazines, view videos, play games and surf the Internet. In direct sunlight, the tablet “turns off, sometimes after just a few minutes of use,” according to the complaint.
All of Apple’s iOS devices have an emergency overheating mode in which the device shuts down until it has cooled off enough to resume normal operation.
What get’s me, is that this is an easily fixable problem. You know, get the device out of direct sunlight. Not to excuse Apple, if there is a legitimate problem they should address it, but it seems that a lawsuit over something that is well within the users’ control to change is a bit drastic.
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