Judge Throws Out 'iMessage Purgatory' Case

As noted by Business Insider, Judge Lucy Koh dismissed the case in a brief ruling issued this week.

At issue were text messages that people "lost" when switching from iPhone to another mobile OS. When an iPhone owner traded their phone in for an Android or Windows device, but kept the same phone number, a flaw in Cupertino's system recognized the number as an iPhone, and sent texts to that device rather than the new handset.
It could be fixed by switching off iMessage on the old iPhone, but if you got rid of or traded in that iPhone, you were out of luck and your texts were trapped in "iMessage purgatory."
Cupertino last year released an online tool that lets people deregister iMessage on an old phone, allowing all texts to move freely between any devices.
But that came after Apple was sued over the issue. It tried to have the case throw out last year, but Judge Koh allowed it to proceed. Earlier this year, however, she rejected efforts to turn it into a class-action case, and has now thrown it out entirely.