Two companies, Google and AT&T filed a joint lawsuit against the famous ‘fruit’ giant. This is a very interesting situation since AT&T lawsuit against Apple [the U.S. carrier sells Apple iPhones to customers for years in a row] will give a chance to see case documents and learn internal communications used by the ‘fruit’ giant.
The situation is caused by text message interception. Users who switch from iPhone to Android often have a problem with their text messages not being delivered to Android when sent from the iDevice. The U.S. Federal lawsuit states that the Cupertino-based giant wiretaps users who choose to get Android handset instead of the iPhone.
The accusations were made by two people, Adrienne Moore and Adam Bachaut, who failed to get messages after they began using Android instead of their iPhones. Such a procedure when phone number is transferred from iPhone to Android device takes over 45 days and drives users crazy. According to AT&T U.S. iPhone carrier and Google, the interception of texts send from iPhone to Android is done illegally by Apple. Such an act got in violation with the Stored Communications and Federal Wiretap Acts.
Apple didn’t make any official statements about the new lawsuit filed against the company. It only gave the permission for investigation.
Have you ever wanted to unlock AT&T iPhone using factory service? The lawsuit has nothing to do this however if you are currently using this U.S. carrier and would love to switch to a different network – it is possible to do so.