In Chicago, district judge Matthew F Kennelly has dismissed a lawsuit against Apple without it going to trial. The lawsuit claimed Apple did not "immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost, including delivery," reports Bloomberg.
"Apple disclosed on the outside of the iPhone package that [the battery has] 'limited recharge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced by Apple service provider'," Kennelly wrote in his Sept. 23 opinion, quoting the packaging. "Under the circumstances, no reasonable jury could find that deception occurred.''
In any case, I can't imagine many people were taken in. I expect most iPhone buyers already have iPods and are therefore familiar with this basic Apple design flaw, and it's not a very significant flaw. Some people carry phone chargers around, but hardly anyone carries a spare battery for their mobile phone. Not even I do that.
