Just a day after Apple officially confirmed that a change in iOS could make older
iPhones slower if they batteries aged and degraded to a certain point, two lawsuits against the company were filled in the United States.
But it's not to make older
iPhones slower — it's a new feature to help prevent them from suddenly turning off.
Earlier this year, it was sued for deliberately making
iPhones slower.
Apple ended up confirming that it began slowing down old phones last year, but says it did it for an altruistic reason: not to make older
iPhones slower, but to help prevent them from suddenly turning off.
But it's not to make older
iPhones slower — it's a new feature to help prevent them from suddenly turning off.
The committee will hear from Apple Canada, in addition to the Competition Bureau and Primate Labs (the Toronto based company that designed an app which ultimately concluded that
iPhones slow with age).
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Despite its public apology, a number of lawsuits have already been filed against Apple by iPhone customers seeking damages for having
their iPhones slowed down.
Apple first announced plans to begin offering reduced - cost battery replacements in late December -LRB-» / / www.macrumors.com/2017/12/28/apple-iphone-battery-performance-price-drop/') to provide a fix for customers who have noticed
their iPhones slowing down due to power management features impacting older devices with degraded batteries.
Apple's move led to older
iPhones slowing down while the move from Samsung, OnePlus and other Android OEMs led to their phones delivering higher than usual performance in benchmarks — something which barely has an impact on daily use and affects a consumer's buying decision.
Interestingly enough, Cook says that its initial effort to stop random shutdowns of older iPhones did the job it was meant to, but it was not clear at the time (the feature was launched last year) that it would make some older
iPhones slow down.
Not exact matches
Geekbench wrote a blog post about the issue, and Apple admitted it was intentionally
slowing down some
iPhones with older batteries a few days later.
Apple apologized Thursday for
slowing down
iPhones with older batteries without disclosing the practice to customers until last week.
That, of course, has fueled conspiracy theories that Apple
slows down older
iPhones when a new model comes out.
Four U.S. House Republicans, including the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, on Friday wrote Apple chief executive Tim Cook asking him to answer questions about its disclosure that it
slowed older
iPhones with flagging batteries.
The Shanghai Consumer Council requested an explanation about the
slowing down of
iPhones, demanding a reply before Friday.
The stock jump follows some mea culpas from analysts who were were too pessimistic, misled by reports from Apple suppliers that implied
slowing demand for
iPhones.
The data fueled long - held conspiracy theories that Apple purposely
slows down older
iPhones to sell new phones.
Two California residents are suing Apple after the company admitted it
slows down
iPhones with older batteries.
In December, data from Geekbench showed that Apple has been
slowing down the processors on
iPhones with older batteries, presumably to boost performance.
The lawsuit filing claims that they, and anyone else who joins the class action lawsuit, did not consent to Apple
slowing down their phones and, therefore, Apple interfered with the possession of their
iPhones.
The
slowing trend on
iPhones could be a matter of discounting, except that it isn't.
So does the news that Apple
slows down
iPhones.
Reinsch said Beijing could also decide to halt huge US agricultural exports to China like soybeans or
slow or shut down the assembly of Apple
iPhones, which are manufactured in China.
Remember, how badly Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was accused of deliberately
slowing down the older
iPhones!
Apple has already come clean on its practice of
slowing down older
iPhones to prevent against unnecessary shutdowns, but Cook put a slightly different spin on things, saying «a lot of people weren't paying attention» when Apple originally released the iOS 10.2.1 update that started throttling chip speeds.
Apple first introduced the power management features in iOS 10.2.1, but the issue received additional attention at the end of 2017 after it became clear that power management involved
slowing down
iPhones with batteries that are running at a sub-optimal level.
If Apple explicitly said that they injected code into older
iPhones to
slow them down because new ones came out, that would be admission.
Consumers are not happy with Apple's admission that it intentionally
slowed down older
iPhones to keep up with declining batteries, reports USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham on Talking Tech.
Last week, a story went viral that claimed Apple was intentionally
slowing down older
iPhones to push people to buy its latest models.
So it's true Apple intentionally
slow down old
iPhones.
You might remember a few months ago when Apple announced that they are purposely
slowing down your
iPhones to prevent them from shutting down.
In addition to all that, my phone was dying a
slow painful death, so I just got my first
iphone and I'm learning how to use it (cue the stressed emoji).
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slow down old
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slower than most modern
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Some consumers allege that Apple
slowed down
iPhones in order to force them to upgrade to newer — and more expensive — iPhone models.
Looking back at the introduction of the iPods,
iPhones and iPads, the first year's sales tend to be a bit
slow, with adoption rate striking up tremendously in years to follow.
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The intentional
slowing down of older phones when newer
iPhones get released.
Apple first introduced the power management features in iOS 10.2.1, but the issue received additional attention at the end of 2017 after it became clear that power management involved
slowing down
iPhones with batteries that are running at a sub-optimal level.
Although this finding seemed to confirm the «Apple
slows old
iPhones» meme, the company said this throttling was needed to compensate for the (unavoidable) degraded performance of old batteries.
It only took a scandal blowing up in its face and getting hit with more than 20 different lawsuits, but it seems at long last, Apple will finally give people the option to disable the performance throttling that was
slowing down older
iPhones.
But the trouble is that Apple admitted to
slowing down older
iPhones only after several reports had accused it of doing so.
When the news broke that Apple was
slowing down older phones, some Apple fans charged that the company was doing it to get them to upgrade to newer
iPhones.
Apple's legal battle against accusations that it intentionally
slows down older
iPhones to incentivize customers to upgrade to newer models will likely take place in one courtroom near the company's headquarters in California.The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has disclosed that it will consider consolidating dozens of iPhone performance - related complaints filed against Apple during a hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 29 in Atlanta, Georgia, as is routine for similar cases filed across multiple states.Apple currently faces 59 putative class actions across 16 district courts in the United States.
The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have started investigating an Apple software update that
slowed down older
iPhones, according to a Bloomberg report.
Last month, Apple reduced the price of out - of - warranty batteries for certain
iPhones from $ 79 to $ 29 after it was scrutinized for allegedly
slowing down processors in older phones.