Apple loses bid to have lawsuit over FaceTime on iPhone 4 dismissed quoting : "9to5Mac"

as declared in That almost certainly includes a September-quarter iPhone launch. Apple is set to announce its June quarter earnings today — and more importantly, its forecast for the September quarter, which could include this year's big, new iPhone launch. But the real question is how Apple will forecast its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in September — and carries some clues for this year's iPhone launch timing. Wall Street expects Apple to report $44.9 billion of June quarter revenue, representing 6 percent year over year growth. Right now, the Wall Street consensus for Apple's September-quarter revenue is $49.2 billion, representing 5 percent year-over-year growth.


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"Indeed, Apple advertised FaceTime as 'one more thing that makes an iPhone an iPhone. Earlier this year Apple was hit with a class action lawsuit over FaceTime being disabled on older iPhones that can't run iOS 7, and this week an attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed has failed. "FaceTime is a 'feature' of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone's cost," Koh said in a footnote. While Apple argued that no damage was done as FaceTime is a free service, the judge in the case decided that FaceTime is a part of the iPhone. '"With Apple failing to have the lawsuit dismissed, we're certain to hear more about the case in the future (although that likely means an exchange of money and not FaceTime coming back to the iPhone 4 and iOS 6).