Apple is on the wrong end of a lawsuit this time around, as Cupertino’s largest reseller in France has taken Apple to court. It seems that the profit generated by eBizcuss’s 16 locations has seen a 30% drop throughout the third quarter of 2011, no thanks to Apple reducing the number of iPad 2s and MacBook Airs shipped. That is what eBizcuss CEO Francois Prudent says anyway, and you just got to love the man’s family name – he certainly lives up to his namesake if he were to run a reasonably sized company. The tipping point allegedly occurred when Apple opened up its own French retail location a couple of years ago.
According to Prudent, his chain of Apple resellers have failed to get their hands on iPhone 4S units throughout the extremely important fourth quarter of 2011, which is when most folks start to do their frenzied holiday shopping. In the lawsuit, eBizcuss also claimed to have forked out $6.5 million to deliver the stores’ point-of-sale systems up to Apple’s standard, and Apple is also accused of favoring their own retail locations compared to resellers. Does anyone want to make a 9gag image of the scumbag hat on the Apple logo if all of these allegations are proved true?