American’s are way too litigious
A recent glitch with T-Mobile and Microsoft caused users of the Sidekick device to lose data such as contacts, photos, and lyrics. Now some customers are getting together to sue and I bet they end up winning something.
But sue for what? Because they hosted valuable data in the cloud and the cloud failed? We blame Microsoft for not having backups but why didn’t the customers have backups of their own? Microsoft and T-Mobile messed up but get over it. People make mistakes and you don’t have to sue over it.
The long term effect is that prices for goods and services must be increased as a result of these suits. Companies like Microsoft are used to getting sued and have teams of lawyers working full time just for this sort of thing. Those lawyers aren’t free or cheap. That hurts revenue and prices must go up to compensate.
Stop being greedy America.