According to Medway’s claims,the latest version of iPhone called iPhone3G has a defect which doesn’t let the the Apple’s  smartphone users,get consistent 3G speed.Medway also highlights the fact that Apple is well aware of the problem as thousands of folks have repeatedly complained regarding the inconsistent high-speed connectivity but Apple has not taken any responsible action to address the problem and has been whole heartedly advertising the 3G speed in its ad campaigns with no regard to the issues reported by its customers.

Through this elegation,Medway’s attorneys are looking for big damages(in excess of $5 Million) from Apple.But such elegations haven’t been new to Apple.Earlier,many customers complained regarding same ‘poor 3G performance’ and inability to change their service provider(AT&T in iPhone’s case) as well.

But logically,the problem seems more to be lying  on AT&T’s part because ‘Inconsistent 3G connectivity’ can most possibly be a direct consequence of overburdened network and AT&T is responsible to take care of any such network inefficiency.

As far as inherent defect in iPhone3G is concerned,any phone with 3G support(iPhone3G,G1,N97…) is tested several times,both in ‘controlled’ as well as ‘real time’ environment before getting ’3G support’ validity and therefore,the possibility of iPhone,possesing an inherent defect is very less.

And Michael seems quite pissed off with this stuff and with Earthcomber President Jim Brady.According to Michael’s conversations with Jim,it’s not something that needs to be taken so seriously and can be worked out before going to the court.His ultimate target is taking Loopt to the court and not TC.

This seems a pure publicity gimmick by the hardly known Earthcomber,who came into limelight only when it was honored as best “infotainment” app at the Nokia Mobile Rules! competition held at Silicon Valley in March for its trademarked “personal radar” technology.

This is for the sixth time(TC got sued earlier from YouTube, Marvel, Rivals,Mediascrape and Richard Figueroa) that TechCrunch has been panelized but unlike the first five lawsuits which never went to the court,Earthcomber will probably see TechCrunch in the court,but with latter’s willingness to bury the other party down.

Michael is sounding aggressive and isn’t looking to let Earthcomber get away with all the FREE publicity that it has received in the last few days.His lawyers are already in action against Earthcomber and it seems that TechCrunch is on a safer side as the elegations against TechCrunch are quite weak and immature.

The reason that Earthcomber has proposed behind penalizing TechCrunch is TC’s act of acting a Search Filter in fovor of Loopt.Loopt is just a sponsor to TechCrunch(no investment by TC/Michael in Loopt) with no other business relations whatsoever.

But Michael is unnecessarily shelling out more publicity to Earthcomber by raging out against it on TC.He should rather PARTY at the moment.

Here’s Why ?

• In the last two years,this is (legal elegation) happening for the sixth time with TechCrunch that rather signifies the growing influence of this Technology Blog in Silicon valley and all over.
• The reasons behind the elegations seems so baseless that if the matter goes to court,Earthcomber will be the probable looser out of the two.
• If this matter settles outside the court then earthcomber will have to pay out handsome amount of money to getaway from this mess that it has created for itself.

Loopt seems to be lucky at the moment.Now,all the botheration has been shifted to Earthcomber’s side. Michael shouldn’t give anymore publicity to Earthcomber and let his lawyers burry it down.Earthcomber may soon find itself into deadpool.