The investigation starts only a few days after the Seoul’s Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty filed a complained against Apple for reducing the performance of certain iPhone models with iOS updates, accusing the company of deliberately throttling devices to push customers to new models.
France and Italy have also launched similar investigations on Apple’s practices, and the company now risks hefty fines in both countries if found guilty of deliberate slowdowns for planned obsolescence.
Apple admitted in late December that it reduced the performance of iPhone 6 to iPhone 7 in order to prevent unexpected shutdowns on units with worn-out batteries.
While the company apologized and reduced the cost of replacing batte… (read more)
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