It has only been a week since Apple's "Touch disease" came into limelight. However, it quickly gained popularity and now a lawsuit has been filed against the company over its iPhone 6.
It has been alleged that iPhone 6s being produced by the company has Touch ID sensors and unresponsive touchscreen. According to BGR, the term "touch disease" was initially kept after the problems that recurred in iPhone 6S and 6S Plus phones.
People claim that there is a design defect with the device as the touch controller is highly susceptible to damage. This could be a manufacturing defect since the problems are being noticed in a whole bunch of iPhone 6S devices, which are rendered unsuitable for use because of faulty screens, non-working fingerprint readers, and several display issues.
For the same reason, a nationwide lawsuit has been filed against the company in San Jose, California. This class-action lawsuit filed on Aug. 27, Saturday has three claimants as of now - Jun Bai (Delaware), Thomas Davidson (Pennsylvania) and Todd Cleary (California).
The claim asks the company to pay for the damage, recall all the defective iPhones and extend the warranty period for its devices. The lawsuit claims that the defects are solely the responsibility of Apple and the defects were present in the device before they left the company's doorsteps.
According to the lawsuit, Apple did not include underfill or metal shield in the device. These two ways help protect the chips on the logic board and have been incorporated in all the previous version of the iPhones. The same defect has also been identified by a number of technicians who repair iPhone.
Even though the claimants may have pointed out correct mistakes and Apple may be at a serious fault, however, it is not clear whether the case will ever make it to the requested jury trial. This is not the first time that a lawsuit has been filed against Apple for defects and the company has successfully made its way out of the mess in the past as well.
It is likely that Apple may decide to extend its warranty and pay people back who have already spend money to get the defects fixed.
