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Apple is being sued by a disgruntled iPhone 3G owner for deliberately crippling her iPhone 3G via iOS 4.1. Biana Wofford claims the company deliberately crippled the device with a software update in order to force customers to migrate from 3G to iPhone 4. She filed the lawsuit in the Superior Court of California and is seeking class action status, claiming Apple turned her phone into "a device with little more use than that of a paper weight".
According to her claim, "Apple has falsely, intentionally and repeatedly represented to owners and consumers of the iPhone 3G that its new operating system for the device, iOS4, was ... a significant upgrade for the functionality of all iPhone devices, when in fact, the installation and use of the iOS4 on iPhone 3G resulted in the opposite - a device with little more use than that of a paper weight,"..........the iOS 4.0 upgrade "degraded service, diminished speed and operability and substantially slowed functionality of the device".
Apple rolled out the iOS4 update to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS owners just before it began selling the iPhone 4. Since then it has been a night mare for iPhone 3G users who quickly found that applying the update
significantly slowed down performance and caused apps to crash. Unfortunately,
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