Flash Back: Apple sued over Android users blocked from receiving SMS from iPhone devices

Huge corporations like Apple or Samsung are no strangers to the courtroom, in fact, at such level, it’s almost business as usual.

Having said that, there are boundaries, and Apple just stepped into a doozy.

When text messaging was first introduced back in the stone-age of cellular telephony, it was a neat feature, barely a novelty.

Now SMS is a social necessity and a right to all who bear cellphones, especially Adrienne Moore, a new Samsung phone owner who filed the suit in San Jose, California.

According to Moore, Apple failed to disclose an issue the company knew about. Moore is also seeking class action status, which would allow a larger group of former iPhone users to benefit from damages whose amount is yet to be specified.

The ability to send and receive text messages is part of our lives, and when that ability is taken away, angry mobs storm down the hills waving pitchforks and phone bills.

As large numbers of former iPhone users switched to Android, whose worldwide market share has reached 80% of all smartphone users in May 2014, they suddenly found themselves unable to receive text messages from iPhone devices with iMessage enabled.

Those messages, locked within the iMessage ecosystem turn quickly into a liability affecting personal and business relationships relying on text message communication.

While the community at large is already sharing workarounds, Apple has yet to comment on the issue, and there is currently no word of a permanent fix to this problem.