You know, it’s so often that we bring you news of new lawsuits against Apple, that we’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to tell you about the end of a lawsuit. Now, we tell you this: it feels good.
Last May, a pair of San Diego photographers sued Apple for allegedly misrepresenting the specifications of their MacBook and MacBook Pro displays. The contention was that the displays were not capable of displaying millions of colors, as Apple said they were; they could only achieve that setting through excessive use of dithering, which meant that the displays were not suitable for professionals who needed extremely accurate color reproduction. That case has now been settled.
The case generated a lot of discussion and argument about precisely who was at fault, whether the lawsuit was frivolous, what precisely “millions of colors” really entailed, and what was to be done about fixing it, if possible. In the end, however, it appeared that the case was going nowhere; the plaintiffs reputedly had trouble finding other parties who were felt wronged because of the inaccuracy of that claim, and so they dropped the matter.
And so, it appears that our long national color nightmare is finally over. I, for one, will sleep soundly tonight, knowing that even if my MacBook can’t display millions of colors, I at least can’t tell the bloody difference.
Frankly, as happy as I was to hear about this development, I was even happier to hear that an unrelated suit, alleging that rainbows also exhibit from excessive dithering, was similarly dropped. Thank heavens.
[via Daring Fireball]
