{"id":17118,"date":"2017-02-03T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:23:38","slug":"lawsuit-claims-apple-intentionally-broke-facetime-on-ios-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/lawsuit-claims-apple-intentionally-broke-facetime-on-ios-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Claims Apple Intentionally Broke FaceTime on iOS 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/02\/02\/lawsuit-claims-apple-forced-users-to-ios-7-by-breaking-facetime\">Mikey Campbell\t<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/02\/02\/lawsuit-apple-broke-facetime-money-ios7\/\">Husain Sumra<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/02\/02\/lawsuit-claims-apple-forced-users-to-ios-7-by-breaking-facetime\"><p>A class-action lawsuit filed in California on Thursday alleges Apple schemed to force iPhone users to upgrade to iOS 7 in a bid to save money on a data services deal with Akamai, a move that rendered older hardware like iPhone 4 and 4S unusable.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Initially, calls routed through Akamai&rsquo;s relay servers only accounted for only 5 to 10 percent of FaceTime traffic, but usage quickly spiked. On Nov. 7, 2012, a jury found Apple&rsquo;s peer-to-peer FaceTime call technology <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/12\/11\/06\/apple-loses-virnetx-patent-trial-ordered-to-pay-368m\">in infringement<\/a> of patents owned by VirnetX. Along with a $368 million fine, the ruling meant Apple would have to shift away from peer-to-peer to avoid further infringement.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Citing internal emails and sworn testimony from the VirnetX trial, the lawsuit alleges Apple devised a plan to &ldquo;break&rdquo; FaceTime on iOS 6 or earlier by causing a vital digital certificate to prematurely expire. Apple supposedly implemented the &ldquo;FaceTime Break&rdquo; on April 16, 2014, then blamed the sudden incompatibility on a bug, the lawsuit claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/after-patent-loss-apple-makes-facetime-worse\/\">After Patent Loss, Apple Makes FaceTime Worse<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikey Campbell (via Husain Sumra): A class-action lawsuit filed in California on Thursday alleges Apple schemed to force iPhone users to upgrade to iOS 7 in a bid to save money on a data services deal with Akamai, a move that rendered older hardware like iPhone 4 and 4S unusable.[&#8230;]Initially, calls routed through Akamai&rsquo;s relay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[558,31,136,469,41,209],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-facetime","tag-ios","tag-ios6","tag-ios7","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17119,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}