Microsoft lawyer handling latest iPod lawsuit

Earlier this week, John Kiel Patterson filed a class action suit against Apple regarding the iPod's potential to harm listeners' hearing. He is seeking compensation for damages and upgrades to the iPod that will make it safer.

Now, it's pretty easy to say that everyone knows that listening to music via headphones at a high volume for prolonged periods of time will damage your hearing. Still,
it wouldn't kill Apple to put a warning sticker on the packaging. But here's where the story gets weird. Mr. Patterson won't state if his hearing has been damaged from using an iPod. But his lawyer, Steve W. Berman, says that's beside the point, as it's the iPod's dangerous potential that Patterson is concerned with. Also, Steve Berman is (and has been) on retainer with Microsoft. I'm just saying.

Start your engines, conspiracy theorists.

[Via
MacDailyNews]