Apple Settles "Frivolous" Lawsuit

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3-28-2008 1:46 PM

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Apple has <A target="_blank" href="http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/eric2_0/2008/03/apple-settles-m.html">agreed an out of court settlement</A> to a ten-month old complaint against the way it has claimed its Macs display "millions of colours".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=20808">
Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. A lawsuit (which attempted to be a class action, but failed to attract sufficient litigants for such status) was filed last year by professional photographers, Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=20808">
They claimed that they had been fooled into purchasing Apple laptops by Apple's claimed support for millions of colours. "The displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="5525684">software</A> technique referred to as 'dithering,' " the lawsuit said.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ED25D76B-AD19-4E2C-AAF8-0FC044C4D5F2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

kidora says:

These dudes are retarded ... photographers that have smoked too much of something.