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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @02:35PM (1 child)
Hey, what's retarded, I couldn't figure that out.
Is that that Apple opted to not inform the user as to what was happening so that users could decide for themselves how they'd like to proceed with either a repair or degraded performance or rationalize it as a reason to purchase a new phone, or is what is retardted is that Apple put in a helpful feature that had a side effect of selling new phones and that you believe this is OK, because consumers are retarded and their ignorance is bliss?
It could be a brick of bullshit that powered the phone, technical reasons don't really matter as to my question.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday December 24 2017, @04:32PM
Apple tried to quietly deal with a problem and avoid a PR clusterfsck. In the age of the twitter ragemob. They will probably consider that retarded in hindsight. But I don't know what else would have worked in this situation in $current_year. Everybody loves piling onto a rage mob now. The other takeaway is that the Apple reality Distortion Field did die with Steve. Their Gay Diversity Hire lacks the charisma state to generate it, but it is doubtful anyone else could either.