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Apple is facing a class action lawsuit in California over slowing iPhone speeds as batteries age:
Residents of Los Angeles, Stefan Bogdanovich, and Dakota Speas have been represented by Wilshire Law Firm and both of them filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs are accusing Apple of slowing down their older iPhone models when newer models are released and this has been happening without their consent or approval.
Another class action lawsuit has been filed in Illinois [Ecmascript required]:
A day after Apple acknowledged that their software updates slow down older iPhone models, five customers have filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago against the tech giant for what they're calling "deceptive, immoral and unethical" practices that violate consumer protection laws.
The suit was filed Thursday by two Illinoisans along with Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina residents, who had a range of models from the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 7. They claim that Apple's iOS updates "were engineered to purposefully slow down or 'throttle down' the performance speeds" of the iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and iPhone 7.
[...] Apple partially confirmed the theory on Wednesday, releasing a statement admitting updates would slow down phones, but only to prevent devices with old batteries "from unexpectedly shutting down."
TechCrunch's defense of Apple. Also at Business Insider.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Saturday December 23 2017, @10:34PM (4 children)
This is an easy fix for Apple, just add a setting somewhere that states
"When demand exceeds available power:
( ) Slow down
( ) Turn off"
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday December 24 2017, @03:39AM (2 children)
Apparently the issue isn't that simple... the battery goes marginal, unable to deliver sufficient current for high frequency operation, so your options become: A) slow down, B) crash unpredictably, C) pay more to have the battery replaced than a new phone costs.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday December 24 2017, @06:57PM (1 child)
The truly amazing part is the battery problem only exists the millisecond the phone firmware/software is upgraded every time.
Apple seems to do this with mac mini's, when they're angry that you aren't upgrading the hardware, when you upgrade the version of the OS, it gets slower. You know, because CPU thermal paste wears out and they don't want to overheat the CPU.
The whole battery fiasco is just apple fan boy stuff mixed with corporate doublespeak along the lines of the classic "you're holding it wrong" from the old days.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday December 24 2017, @08:24PM
"You're holding it wrong" was not the old days.
The old days were when the ][ took unprintable escape command codes in its BASIC editor...
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @02:38PM
but i don't want them to turn it off. I want these options to exist:
( ) Slow Down to make the most longevity of a degraded battery
( ) Run at regular speed for a shorter period due to chemistry/battery degrading problems that happen over time
they could even add power settings in phones, but I think MS figured out that in order to get anyone to even look at the features, they had to call the high performance "gaming mode".
maybe if these things came with a printed manual, a few people would read them. but since that'd affect shareholder value, we get lawsuits from people instead.