Man wants to sue phone company for R108-million after wife files for divorce
Will he be successful in taking on one of the biggest tech companies in the world?
It is quite common for cheaters to want to come up with excuses once they are caught.
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Whether someone is cheating on a partner or a test, they rarely want to take the fall and might also try to blame others.
Much like a man who recently got into quite some trouble.
According to various sources, the man in question thought his cheating ways would be concealed, but that was not the case.
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Now he wants to take on Apple for their "lack of transparency".
The anonymous man spoke to The Times and said that he had used the iMessage app on his iPhone to contact sex workers and had racy interactions with them.
He also says that he deleted the messages to cover his tracks, but he was not that lucky.
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His wife had used the family iMac and she saw all the messages going back several years.
She quickly filed for divorce.
The husband said that they had been happily married for more than 20 years and had a 'superb marriage'.
If you are told a message is deleted, you are entitled to believe it’s deleted. It’s all quite painful and quite raw still. It was a very brutal way of finding out [for my wife]. My thoughts are, 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. Talking to some of my friends, some of them have had affairs – which I consider a much greater breach of trust – and still stayed married after they had been revealed. I think there would have been a way through it if the realisation hadn’t been so sudden and brutal and upsetting.
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He has now decided to take legal action against Apple for not making it clear that deleted messages on one device do not mean it is deleted from all devices.
He is suing them for close to £5-million (estimated R108-million) for legal costs and other financial losses due to his divorce.
His health has also been affected as he is now on stronger medication to help reduce his panic attacks.
It is mentioned that he attributes these to the stress of having to go through the divorce process.
In my opinion it’s all because Apple told me my messages were deleted when they weren’t.
The law firm representing him seems to be very positive about his case, but Apple has yet to comment on the situation.
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