Apple Forced To Clean Up Its Fine Print 127
Barence writes "Apple has been forced to tidy up its online terms and conditions, at the behest of the UK's Office of Fair Trading. The company has redrafted its Ts & Cs so that it now accepts liability for faulty or misdescribed goods sold from its website or the iTunes store. Apple must also ensure that its conditions are 'drafted in plain or intelligible language' and that they 'do not potentially allow changes to be made to products and prices after an agreement is made.'"
Re:Good news... (Score:4, Interesting)
Exactly as should happen here in America. If I recall there was a cell phone company that pushed a firmware update to a line of phones that removed its Bluetooth data capability and GPS functionality. Well, not really removed, locked is more like it. Locked until you decided to pay a few dollars a month to unlock them..they got taken to court but nothing ever came of it because it was said that a judgment favoring the plaintiff would remove incentive for companies to keep their products up to date technologically. Huh?
Windows XP Professional license agreement (Score:2, Interesting)
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
Re:Good news... (Score:4, Interesting)
As a Verizon Wireless Blackberry Curve owner, I assume he's talking about this pile of crap. Verizon had a class action suit brought against them because they locked out GPS functionality to only work with their utter crap GPS service. This means you can't use it for ANYTHING, even non-navigation related things. So the suit is brought against them, what do they do? The assholes unlock it to work with just BlackBerry Maps (another crap application.) Yet they decide to fully unlock GPS on the other Blackberrys? I just want to know the logic behind this, to get people to buy a new phone (which makes them LESS money ironically)? Yeah, good luck with that Verizon, all you're doing is driving me away, in 2 months when my plan runs out it's time to go to ATT, land of the non-crippled, superior Blackberry. I urge everyone else to do so as well.
no, it's just about the money (Score:1, Interesting)
As someone who's spent a couple of decades developing systems for
on-line control of aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facilit.
I can tell you from first-hand experience that that clause is *NOT* telling you not to use the software in those applications -- what it *IS* telling you is that they want you to negotiate a custom license (for a custom fee, of course) for the right to use the software in those applications.