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Planned obsolescence - Apple Sued After Admitting to Slowing Down Older iPhones

2017-12-23

[Breitbart] Apple is being sued after the company admitted to slowing down older iPhone models in a statement this week.
According to CNBC, "Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas brought a class action lawsuit in California ‐ where they are residents ‐ against Apple, an official filing revealed Thursday."

"They claim that Apple never requested consent from them to ’slow down their iPhones.’ Both plaintiffs are owners of an iPhone 7," CNBC explained. "Bogdanovich and Speas claim they ’suffered interferences to their iPhone usage due to the intentional slowdowns.'"

The two Apple customers are also claiming "economic damages and other harm for which they are entitled to compensation" and "are trying to get the case certified to cover all people in the United States who owned an Apple phone older than the iPhone 8."

Apple confirmed they were slowing down older iPhone models on Wednesday, claiming it was in an effort to prevent random shutdowns which were taking place due to old lithium-ion batteries.

Several users on Twitter had claimed their devices were being "throttled" before Apple admitted to the practice, and many alleged the company was slowing down iPhones in an effort to force customers to upgrade.

Posted by:Besoeker

#11 I had the same problems related by trailing wife. Battery life was all over the place.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-12-23 22:01

#10 OTOH, I have yuge hands and presbyopic eyes, so I really need a larger phone to accommodate my situation. Sometimes I think my smartphone is smarter than me. Using a Moto G5+ now, got it on sale at a big box store, use it on Tracfone network for the few cell calls I make. I really use it more like a laptop in my pocket than as a cell phone.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-23 15:17

#9 They better put it back the way it was.

Posted by: newc 2017-12-23 13:51

#8 I was sold on the Samsung Galaxy S7 when I saw that it was made in Korea instead of China. That was a year or so ago and I never looked back.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-12-23 13:20

#7 <3

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-23 12:25

#6 At this point, the warrantee has expired anyway.
Posted by: trailing wife

Expired? It appears you got better? :-)

Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-23 11:09

#5 I noticed battery problems with my otherwise perfectly functional iPhone 5c recently. It would go from 75% battery to shut down, then when attached to a backup battery would within a minute or two be up to 70%. I have held onto the 5c because a) it works fine and I still have plenty of storage space, and b) I have small hands, and the new, bigger phones simply don’t work for me.

I could replace the lithium battery, I suppose. At this point, the warrantee has expired anyway.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-23 10:47

#4 Wife had to upgrade hers because apps she was using were upgraded to where they were no longer compatible with the final OS upgrade available to her phone. Now we use the old one for WiFi access in places like airports.

Posted by: Glenmore 2017-12-23 10:01

#3 DooDah - Eric Schmidt resigned from ABC, the parent company of Google. Admittedly, it's difficult to tell the fascist monopolies apart these days. Rumor is that he is the next sexual harassment target.

Posted by: Warthog 2017-12-23 08:46

Perhaps Apple could redeem itself by offering free "dieselgate" Volkswagons to the owners of slowed iPhones.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-23 07:28

#1 And didn't that Apple dude (Schmidt?) resign recently? I doubt this is what pushed him over the edge, but I can believe this story.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2017-12-23 04:04

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