Tomorrow is a very important day for the future of the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), because several dozens of lawsuits have been opened because of this limiting iPhone performance could be brought together. No less than 59 open lawsuits against the Apple company could be combined into a single collective lawsuit, with a substantial number of customers to be represented in it.
The real number of lawsuits opened against the Apple company could in reality be much higher, but only 59 are known, but for Apple the problem is very big. Apple was forced to pay 315 million dollars in the form of compensation, or free cases, to customers affected by the iPhone 4 problem with signal loss, but then only 20 lawsuits had been opened.
Now we are talking about 3 times more lawsuits opened only in the USA against Apple, so the compensation that should be paid by the Americans could be substantially higher. However, the class action needs to be approved by a court, and from here it remains to be seen what a judge, or a jury, will decide regarding Apple's actions taken without iPhone users knowing.
"Some five dozen iPhone customers have filed at least 59 separate lawsuits since December accusing Apple of slowing their phones to spur people to buy new iPhones, according to court records […] Efforts to combine the cases into one class-action suit will kick off at a March 29 legal meeting in Atlanta, setting in motion an effort to have the class certified. A lead attorney and a court location will also be chosen."
Some experts in American law claim that Apple could win this process after all the public revelations about how iPhone performance is limited and offering the function to disable the system. Even so, a process of this kind will be heavily publicized and will affect Apple's image, the company's reputation being affected anyway by the stupid actions taken against customers.
