Lawsuit against Apple's Facetime Controversy
Demands of Apple and against Apple are already common, either by patents or by stupidities or serious issues. But all in all these situations have remained the order of business since Apple surged in the global smartphone market. On this occasion, a new lawsuit in California accuses Apple of deliberately breaking FaceTime in iOS 6 so that users migrate to iOS 7.
Apparently, during the transition from iOS 6 to iOS 7, many users noticed how the device stopped working with FaceTime, the only solution to upgrade to iOS 7, which solved the problem. Many understood this as a way to force them to upgrade to iOS 7 when Apple really does not force (or should) anyone to update their devices.
It remains to see what the solution proposed by the court, but in the meantime, it should teach what the actual problem where users left them to run FaceTime with iOS 6. It 's all a matter of servers.
In iOS 6 Apple Akamai servers used to store and transmit video calls FaceTime. This obviously cost Apple millions of dollars a month, as Akamai is an outside company. Apple decided to migrate all these calls to their own servers and took advantage of the launch of iOS 7 for it. Since many users of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s remained in iOS 6, the certificate to access Akamai servers expired and the only solution was to use iOS 7 to make video calls with FaceTime.
Whose fault then? In part, it is understandable that Apple will migrate through their servers but it is also understandable that users do not want to upgrade a device or yes you know it will work with slow was as modern as iOS 7 operating system at the time. The solution would have been to let older devices continue to use Akamai servers or offer them a certificate on iOS 6.
