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Apple slapped with another class-action lawsuit for slowing down iPhones

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Apple slapped with another class-action lawsuit for slowing down iPhones

Luxury phone and gadget making company, Apple has been slammed with another class-action lawsuit over the slowing down of iPhones due to battery issues.

This is the second class-action lawsuit filed against Apple by two residents of Illinois who teamed up with other individuals from Ohio, Indiana, and North Carolina.

The lawsuit covers devices ranging from the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 7, and alleges that Apple had acted in “deceptive, immoral, and unethical” ways.

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It also adds that Apple had purposely slowed down iPhones in a bid to “needlessly subjects consumers to purchasing newer and more expensive iPhones when a replacement battery could have allowed consumers to continue to use their older iPhones.”

For those hearing about this for the first time, Apple had basically admitted that they do slow down older iPhones that have depleted/older batteries.

Apple’s reasoning is that this is supposed to provide a better experience for users who were facing random shutdowns of their iPhones due to the battery, and that the iOS update they introduced was meant to address the problem.

 

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