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A Gatineau psychologist who had nearly two months of her agenda temporarily vanish in the iCloud took on tech giant Apple in a small claims court Thursday.

And, by the time Claire Maisonneuve was done pleading her case against Apple Canada in a tiny room on the fifth floor of Ottawa’s courthouse, she had settled for a pair of new iPods, two new iPads, a new iPhone and a new MacBook air.

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Maisonneuve claimed she lost clients, missed appointments, ended up with double bookings and spent 27 hours on the phone with Apple representatives after the calendar she relied on for scheduling vanished first from her two iPads and then her iPhone on Sept. 16 of last year. The service wasn’t restored until Nov. 15. The crash also cost her all her personal contacts.

Maisonneuve sued Apple in small claims court for $13,400 for what she said was a loss of business, damage to her reputation and 27 hours on the phone at her usual rate of $140 an hour.