Earlier this year, Steven Lamar, one of the men behind the Beats line of headphones, brought a claim against Apple for cutting him out of the $3 billion deal to buy out the headphones maker. How the Hollywood Reporter says that Beats (and thus Apple) is suing Lamar for claiming that he co-founded the company.
The company says that by marketing his new line of headphones by promoting himself as a “co-founder” of Beats, Lamar is falsely using the Apple subsidiary’s name for false marketing. Furthermore, the company is claiming that various news reports referring to Lamar as a co-founder are misleading. Apple’s lawyers are demanding that Lamar issue a statement clarifying his role at Beats and refrain from saying he co-founded the electronics manufacturer.
The full legal filing can be read below.
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Underwhelming conferences, bending iPhones, faulty iOS updates, deleted user cloud data and the first order of business at Apple is a lawsuit regarding money they just blew on a company that was to be irrelevant in 5 years..
I just hope the new Macbooks to be announced next month are coming with Broadwell, now there’s is a product line that always delivers.
“first order of business”?
How exactly do you propose the lawyers help out with underwhelming conferences, bending iPhones, faulty iOS updates and deleted iCloud data? Apple is a large company — they are more than capable of doing more than one thing at a time. Shockingly, some areas of the company are dedicated to certain tasks – so when iOS updates fail, the iOS team can keep working to fix it. Engineering can keep working on the bending phones. And the lawyers can keep on doing legal work. There’s no need for them to stop their work or shift deadlines because of an “underwhelming conference”.
Sarcasm isn’t your thing. You just elaborated on my post, despite everything we expect from Apple it has made one disaster after another in true ironic fashion. Like the iDevices, Apple’s incapable of true multi-tasking.
Amazing what lengths idiots out there will go to in order to fabricate everything and anything they possibly can in every vain attempt to make Apple look bad, pathetic.
Yeah, because you know, the whole world is lying to you and there’s a huge conspiracy to pop that pathetic, little bubble you live in. Apple has managed to look bad all on it’s own, the only idiot here is you for believing they can’t screw up. The world is bigger than the Apple shrine mounted in your mother’s basement.
FU FAME. I give Apple an F for the iOS update and iCloud issues, as that’s a definite screw up. Bending iPhones is purely a media-induced BS smear campaign; setup a few iPhone 6/6+ models at work for staff, and trust me, it takes a LOT of pressure to bend one of those suckers, much more than pockets can produce, so stop spreading the FUD.
Btw, your assumption that you’re certain Apple’s acquisition of Beats is pointless because they are an irrelevant company just shows your incompetence and self-worth.
Do you run a Fortune 500 company? One of the most successful in history? No? Then STFU and go back to your little hole that you crawled out from, which I think is more than likely a Wall Street anal-yst desk.
Is Edison the new TallestSkil? He’s an odd ball
“How the Hollywood Reporter says that Beats (and thus Apple) is suing Lamar for claiming that he co-founded the company.”
Is this even a complete sentence??
How = Now
couldn’t help but think how much the attorneys at morrison and foerster must love their domain name
Steven Lamar must be saying– “Im the one who started this gangsta shit and this is all the thanks I git”
Apple, Less innovation and quality and more about lawsuits. No wonder they are going to hell in a handbasket.
Hell in a handbasket? Not sure why you think that… Still the most valuable company in the world. Still the highest customer satisfaction reports for it’s devices. Still leading the industry in the way technology is used and will be used. Yeah…really seems like they are going downhill. Oh, wait. There not. The iPhone part of Apple, alone, is worth more than Microsoft, Google, and Samsung, alone. Apple needs to worry about nothing. Besides, learn to read the legal documents. It clearly states that Beats is suing them. Not the parent company of Apple. Good try, though.
It clearly says that Lamar transferred the design and trademark to Dre and Iovine and then signed a settlement agreement. Despite that agreement, that clearly tells me that Lamar had an instrumental role in the launch and creation of Beats – Otherwise there would have been nothing for him to handover and relinquish.
So, he stated the truth. The legal system is so blind. The man played a role. Let him try to earn a living for his work. Apple should focus on bigger things and not petty shit like this. Corporations love twisting the true histories. Let those who played a role be acknowledged. Life is too short.