Apple accused of overestimating the amount of memory mobile devices

Florida plaintiffs are surprised: only 13 GB can be recorded on a 16-GB iPhone

Paul Orshan and Christopher Endar sued Apple. In it, a giant from Cupertino is accused of overstating the real volumes of permanent storage of their mobile devices. The claim is not collective, although it is trying to obtain this status.

Any user of modern smartphones is familiar with this situation: the volume in gigabytes or other units of ten units is advertised. But in the overwhelming number of cases, the end user can dispose of a much smaller amount of permanent storage - some are “eaten away” by the operating system, some are caused by differences between decimal (kilo, mega, gigabyte) and binary (kibi, meba, gibi) attachments.

It seems that this injustice is taken for granted by almost everyone, but not only by two Miami residents. They say that a smaller 16GB storage was available on their 16 gigabyte iPhones and iPads they bought. After upgrading iOS from version 7 to version 8, the amount of available memory fell even lower. The plaintiffs point out that there is a rather strong irony in the way iOS 8 calls the manufacturer “the largest iOS update in history”.

The complaint has specific numbers, they are presented in the table above. As you can see, the difference between gigabytes and gibbytes is not taken into account, the essence of the claim is only in the space that is needed to store the system files. Differences of real space with advertised reach 23 percent.
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This is not limited to this: Apple is accused of deliberately understating volumes in order to force users to buy a place in the cloud storage iCloud. It is proposed to purchase it after the devices run out of space. And this can happen very inopportunely, when you need to shoot a video or take a photo of a memorable moment, the lawsuit says. Each of the under-received gigabytes is estimated at 400-500 photos in high resolution.

No comments from Apple have yet been received .

This is not the first such lawsuit against Apple. In 2007, a Canadian made a similar claim: on the iPod nano, out of 8 gigabytes claimed, only 7.45 were available for use. The difference was only 7.5%. The claim was rejected .

A similar accusation was directed against Microsoft: in the early models of the 64-inch Surface tablet, only 23 GB of data could be recorded .

Details of the claim .