Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), won an important lawsuit in the USA, filed by former customers who were upset because they were not receiving messages from their friends because, giving up their iPhone, they did not deactivate the iMessage account associated with their phone number.
Friends who stayed with Apple products and sent messages to those who left the iOS platform noticed that the messages no longer reach the recipients because their phone numbers remained associated with iMessage and iOS did not send the messages as SMS to the new phones, but only to Apple's servers.
Apple was accused of refusing to send iMessage messages through the telephone network to users' new phones, but the lawsuit concluded today gives them a win because of those in Cupertino who, in the meantime, created a special platform that allows disassociating a phone number from iMessage.
In its defense, Apple argued that some of the plaintiffs switched from iPhone to Android only after the lawsuit was filed, so their claims cannot be proven in court, one of these people even asked to withdraw from the lawsuit.
Apple […] discovered that two of the three plaintiffs in the case had gotten rid of their old iPhones after they filed the suit against Apple. They are thus unable to demonstrate whether texts sent to their phone numbers went to their Apple or Android devices, Apple claimed. One of the plaintiffs also previously asked that she be dismissed as a "named plaintiff" in the case.
For the rest of those involved in the trial, the judge decided to dismiss the trial in the absence of clear evidence to prove that Apple is really guilty of everything the plaintiffs are accusing it of, so in the end those from Cupertino escaped a trial generated by a problem that has troubled a very large number of people.
