In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

| was ahead of Windows with graphics. They ended up having
| a reputation for being superior for a long time. Long after
|
| IIRC, the reputation was well earned -- the M68k and later PPC chips had
| better pipelines when it came to graphics processing than the Intel x86
| processors of the day.
|
Yes. But their reputation lasted far beyond that
time, for no reason. Some years ago a graphics shop
sued Apple after they bought Macs and found the
display's top setting was only 18-bit color/ 260K
colors, yet the menu selection for that setting was
marked "millions of colors". Leave it to Apple to
use cute slang to hide sleaze. But if they'd said
"tons of colors" they might have protected themselves
from a lawsuit.


If I knew about that suit, I had forgotten it. Just curious--who won?
And how much did they win?

it wasn't a graphics shop.

it was two photographers filing yet another frivolous case, where their
own lawyer couldn't find people who were harmed by it, and ultimately
it was dismissed.

it's also not unique to apple. windows laptops also dithered.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-settles-the-amazing-multicolor-lawsuit/
Few others seem to care, however; The Tribune said the plaintiffs'
lawyer declined to take the case to the limits "because it was
difficult to find other people who were wronged because they had
bought Macs solely based on the 'millions of colors' claim." Terms of
the settlement were not disclosed.

A representative at the San Diego County Superior Court said the case
was actually dismissed last year, and so it's not clear why this took
so long to come to light. But the outcome is not all that surprising,
and I'm left wondering if it took "millions of dollars" for this case
to disappear.