The Court of Appeal for Competition in Great Britain allowed according to the agency Reuters move forward with a lawsuit over the company's iPhone "stranglehold" dispute Apple in 2017. This was filed by well-known consumer advocate, independent consultant Justin Gutmann back in June 2022 and initially sought a total of £750 million for around 24 million iPhone users in the UK whose devices were affected by the Cupertino company's measures, which were introduced in an attempt to prevent an unexpected shutting down devices with degraded battery during use. Since then, the debt has risen to £1,6bn plus interest.
Gutmann's lawyers argued that Apple hid battery problems in some of its phone models and "hiddenly" installed a power management tool that throttled performance. Company Apple However, it stated that the lawsuit is “unfounded” and strongly denies that the battery in iPhonewere defective, except for a small number of iPhone 6s models, for which it offered free replacements.
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Gutmann's lawsuit concerns models iPhone 6 to iPhone X. Although the Competition Appeals Court ruled that the action could proceed, it also highlighted the presence of ambiguity and a lack of specificity that would need to be resolved before a trial could actually take place.
Apple in 2017, he deployed the system iOS 10.2.1 power management features that prevented devices with degraded battery quality from attempting to draw peak power that the batteries could no longer provide. The company says the goal of implementing these was to help extend battery life while also minito mitigate disruptive shutdowns, but the company was criticized by some customers for not disclosing what it was doing and dispelling hints that it was trying to hide device defects.
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For insufficient explanation of the changes made Apple apologized and instituted a low-cost battery replacement program that lasted several years. In 2020 Apple agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit in the United States over the issue, while facing similar ones in a number of other countries.
