Woman Sues Apple For $5 Million Because Her iPhone 4’s Power Button Doesn’t Work

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People love to sue Apple whenever they can, and now a Florida woman is seeking $5+ million in damages because her iPhone 4’s power button doesn’t work. The class action lawsuit is intended to fight for the iPhone 4 users who have reported defective on/off buttons over the past several years.

GigaOm reports:

In a class action suit filed in San Jose, California, Debra Hilton claims that Apple knew about a defect in a flex cable that controls the on-off button, but chose to stay quiet about it so as to sell more phones.

As evidence, she points to Apple discussion forums viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors on which users complain of “wiggly” power buttons. Hilton also points to a fix-it video on YouTube and comments by a self-described iPhone repairman who says the power button defect is prevalent on the iPhone 4 which went on sale in 2010.

The Apple support thread mentioned above has over 400 posts and 800,000 views, so this has obviously been an issue for quite a few iPhone 4 owners.

Apple just recently started sending out $15 settlement checks to those affected by Antennagate, so no telling how long this new lawsuit will take to resolve.

Source: GigaOm

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