In the Garden of Eden an apple was the reason for a couple getting into trouble. In this case it's an England-based businessman who is suing Apple for 5 million pounds after his wife filed for divorce when she discovered messages he sent to sex workers on an iMac at home even though he had deleted them permanently from his iPhone.
The man whose name has been withheld said he had been communicating with sex workers through his iPhone and had reason to believe he had deleted the messages. What he had not realised were that these were discoverable in the family's iMac, which was synced with other devices due to a common Apple ID, The Times reported.
Blaming Apple for his problems, the man said the tech company had failed to inform users that deleting a message on one device did not necessarily remove it from other synced devices. If one was told a message was deleted "you are entitled to believe it's deleted," The Times quoted him as saying.
The divorce, which in his words were "painful and raw" cost the man more than 5 million pounds.
However, he believes if the discovery of the texts to sex workers had not been such a "brutal realisation" for his wife, a rational conversation could have saved his marriage.
"If I had been able to talk to her rationally and she had not had such a brutal realisation of it, I might still be married," he said.
He explained that the lack of clarity from Apple about how message deletion works led to this situation. "If the message had said 'These messages are deleted on this device,' that would have been a clue, or These messages are deleted on this device only,' that would have been even better," he said.
He is suing Apple and is likely to turn his lawsuit into a class-action suit for others who might have faced similar situations.
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