Apple has finally won a court battle against its customers who claimed the tech giant was stealing their information. It was all about iPhonegate, where it turned out that Apple gizmos were phoning home data on user locations, which allowed tracking the location of Apple users. The company denied using the data.



The 4 plaintiffs insisted that the phone maker had violated its own privacy policy, as it had designed its iOS environment in order to transmit personal data to 3rd parties who gather and analyze such data without user consent or knowledge. The customers complained to suffer damages by paying too much for their mobile devices and losing storage space.

Nevertheless, US District Judge dismissed the case claiming that the plaintiffs had failed to prove they had relied on any Apple misrepresentations and that they had suffered at all. As you can see, the case was fairly weak – everyone knows that you have to pay too much for an iPhone just because you also receive the right to belong to the Cult of Apple.

The judge announced that plaintiffs failed to provide evidence that they saw one or more of the company’s alleged misrepresentations, actually relied on them and were harmed by it. If you don’t understand what this means it is your problem.