RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG]Apple Lawsuit

["Huggard, Arthur Charles \(UMC-Student\)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm fairly sure they already have a warning in the manual. While this
assumes that the user reads the manual, legally it shouldn't clear the
user from being responsible for using the product in accordance with the
instructions provided in that manual. If I decide to replace my video
card in my desktop computer without unplugging it and electrocute
myself, I cannot sue Apple because I was using the product in a method,
prohibited by the manual. 

(Slightly anecdotal but...) If I'm listening to my third-generation iPod
in the car (using an iTrip FM Transmitter), I wouldn't be able to hear
it at all if I didn't have the volume on the iPod close to all the way
up.

I wouldn't feel so strongly about the lawsuit if this clown was only
suing for the iPod to be changed with Apple offering a recall. But suing
for cash damages in an unspecified amount, proves he's not someone
trying to change products for the common good, but just another idiot
abusing the legal system to make a quick buck.

Charlie Huggard | EMAIL:PROTECTED | 314/591-0087
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 7:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG]Apple Lawsuit

Vern Green wrote:
> This is another of those stupid lawsuits, some idiot going after Apple
> because the iPod will play at 115dB.
> 
> Yes, the iPod plays 115dB, so? It also has a volume control on it. If
> this idiot succeeds in his lawsuit, well the ramifications can be dire
> for all of us.
> 
> Additionally, I tend to run notes through my MP3 player (I could not
> bring myself to drink the Kool-aid and buy an iPod). The reason I do
> this is because my MP3 player will play the verbal notes I have taken
> louder than my laptop will play them. I don't want some idiot taking
> that power away because he wants to get rich.
> 
>
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18030444%255E2
902,00.html
> 
> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/48666.html

I bought one of those MP3 players last week.  I did think about possible

ear damage, and for that reason I usually don't play it at maximum
level.

The best thing apple could do is to print a warning label on the iPod's,

just like MacDonalds now does with their coffee.

Stephen


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