Apple screen claims off colour
26 Mar 2008 | 13:33 GMT
Millions claim settled
TWO PRO PHOTOGRAPHERS have received an undisclosed sum out of court in a ten-month battle over the Cupertino Cabal's claims that their Macbook and Macbook Pro lappies could display "millions of colours".
The suit suggested that people were tricked into buying the kit on a false claim and that the machines were only capable of giving the illusion of millions of colours through software dithering.
The snappers maintained that they had purchased a device that they thought was capable of accurately representing colours, essential to their work, and that the reality was far short of the mark.
The nature of the settlement means that Apple could well be open to further claims unless it changes its marketing hyperbole and states the true capabilities of its displays, whatever they may be.
The fact that most displays only actually display three colours, albeit at various levels of luminescence, seems to have been ignored somewhere. µ
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