It might seem that the affair related to the intentional slowing down of iPhones has died down for good - but the opposite is true. Companies Apple was fined $500 million in the United States this week in this connection. Although the company denied any wrongdoing, according to Reuters, it agreed to the interim measure in the form of a fine, saying it wanted to avoid lengthy legal proceedings. The fine was set so that each affected iPhone it was twenty-five dollars.
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This particular lawsuit concerns users in the United States whose iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus or iPhone SE with the operating system iOS 10.2.1 noted the aforementioned problems with slowdowns or shutdowns. The subject of the lawsuit are the changes that Apple introduced along with the release of the aforementioned version of the operating system iOSAs part of these changes, iPhones whose battery capacity dropped below a certain level were intentionally slowed down after the update. ProBut the problem was that Apple did not sufficiently inform its customers about this change. They often got the impression that their devices were damaged due to the slowdown of their devices, and in many cases they immediately bought new iPhone models.
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The reason for introducing these changes was the company's efforts Apple prevent iPhones with more worn batteries from unexpectedly shutting down or otherwise failing. Trials regarding this meeting also took place in other countries of the world - in Italy, for example Apple in addition to the fine, he was also ordered to publish a relevant message on his website and publicly apologize to his customers for the lack of communication. Company Apple publicly apologized for its actions for the first time in December 2017, when it also promised to make appropriate changes in this direction, which included, for example, discounted battery replacement programs or a new function called Battery Health, in which users can monitor the state of their battery in more detail iPhone.
Can someone tell me who actually gets the money from the astronomical fines???
Take a guess, but I don't think they'll send you your 25 bucks by money order.
Well, we have overpriced ones here Apple products, my iPhone Xs has dropped astronomically in price, something never before seen in Apple it wasn't and I won't even get the $25 for slowing down my previous models? iPhone 3GS , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ?????????
Nonsensical fine…
Apple is from the beginning a thieving company with the intention to steal.
I don't understand now that my phone is slowed down, none of us will get its peniaze and I will come with a new update?
Most importantly, everyone is apologizing all the time, instead of acting like they have nothing to apologize for. For that, everyone will buy a lot for constant apologies. I'm already quite allergic to it, I hear it from all sides, even from small children, they do things they shouldn't and the mother insists on apologizing ten times a minute, so they apologize, so what... it doesn't mean anything and so it drags on to the highest positions and places in people's lives, they apologize and everything is OK.