[Swordmaker]

The actual situation is that the relay method of FaceTime used in iOS 6 connection was dropped in iOS 7 and users of iOS 6 would have difficulty connecting to users of iOS 7 which was the "bug" that the cause of failure to connect through the Akamai relay method. Being forced to use an alternative means of connecting that did not "Infringe" VirnetX's patents required that Apple stop using the infringed method used in iOS 6, necessitating the closing of the Certificate authorizing that method. The only method for FaceTime that would work reliably now was the new one that existed iOS 7, but not in iOS 6.

The fact is that iOS 7 would in fact work on iPhone 4 and 4s, so the only iPhones effected by this was the almost 5 year old iPhone 3GS, which could not be upgraded to iOS 7 due to hardware limitations. For the iPads, the iPad 2 did not have a front facing camera, so FaceTime was not an issue. By the time that iOS 7.0.4 was released, fewer than 6% of iOS users were still using iOS 6. Of those a much smaller subset were being affected by the FaceTime issue.

[Swordmaker]

A class action lawsuit was filed in California complaining that Apple forced people to upgrade to iOS 7 from iOS 6 by deliberately breaking FaceTime. . . iOS 7 was released on September 18, 2013. . . and the lawsuit was just filed complaining now about this minuscule issue. — PING!

Apple Class Action Lawsuit Filed in California On iOS 7
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[Nifster]

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[TheBattman]

Facts mean nothing when people are mining for every $ they can squeeze from a multi$Billion corporation.