Apple Loses Bid To Have Lawsuit Over Facetime On Iphone 4 Dismissed

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. Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh made the decision not to dismiss the lawsuit…

Apple’s decision to stop supporting FaceTime on the iPhone 4 was a result of a patent lawsuit it lost against VirnetX which resulted in Apple switching to a cheaper method to support the video calling feature.

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).