Apple to settle with $18 million for deliberately "breaking FaceTime"
By MYBRANDBOOK
According to reports, Apple has agreed to pay $18 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of intentionally breaking FaceTime, its main video calling service. The case alleged that Apple disabled FaceTime on iOS 6 to save costs, and forced users to upgrade to iOS 7, which was its latest mobile operating system in 2013.
The lawsuit in question, filed in 2017, ties to Apple's original implementation of FaceTime. Back in 2010, when the Cupertino giant launched the video-conferencing service, it relied on two basic methods to transfer audio/video data between callers - a direct peer-to-peer connection system developed by the company and a 'relay' system relying on third-party servers of Akamai.
After running the system smoothly for a couple of years, Apple's in-house peer-to-peer technology was found to be infringing on patents held by VirentX.
The dispute ended with a court ruling, which ordered Apple to stop using the peer-to-peer technology and switch to the relay system completely.
Naturally, Apple compiled but the shift to third-party relay service started costing the company millions of dollars.
To save money, Apple developed a new peer-to-peer protocol that came with iOS 7.
However, at the time, a large number of people were reluctant to switch to the new operating system, due to reports suggesting that it caused problems with legacy devices.
To deal with this and continue saving money, Apple implemented a 'FaceTime break' forcing people to upgrade, the plaintiffs allege.
Apple blamed FaceTime issues on a bug, but emails between its engineers, cited in the lawsuit, suggested otherwise.
According to the lawsuit, Apple introduced such changes in iOS 6 that FaceTime stopped working on old devices like iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s, forcing their owners to upgrade to the latest OS.
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