Apple fined Rp.19 billion for water resistant iPhone claims

KOMPAS.com – Apple back into legal trouble. This time, the company from Cupertino, California, United States was fined by the Italian market competition supervisor, AGCM, for 10 million euros or around Rp. 169 billion.

Fine is imposed because Apple is deemed to be making misleading claims about durability iPhone to air.

In its product creatives, Apple claims that the iPhone 8 to iPhone 11 are water resistant at depths of four meters to 30 minutes.

ACGM criticized Apple for not providing clear evidence of these claims. Apple is also considered not to provide clarification that this claim only applies in certain circumstances.

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AGCM then said that the claim could only be proven if smartphone it is “immersed” in clean water, for example hygienic water controlled by laboratory machines.

Air With such a level of cleanliness, AGCM continued, it is considered incompatible with the real world, where water conditions can actually be dirtier and have been mixed with other materials.

AGCM also accused Apple of not giving clear information about the warranty for water damage. Because, the warranty provided by Apple for iPhone products does not include water damage.

Apple itself has not yet commented on the allegations fine submitted by AGCM.

Sanctions in the form of fines that must be paid by Apple are not the first time this has happened this year. In April, French regulators fined Apple around $ 27 million (around Rp. 382 billion) on the grounds that the company should be more open about its practices.

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In November, Apple also paid a fine of 113 million US dollars or around Rp. 1.6 trillion for slowing down the performance of the iPhone through update iOS, as summarized by KompasTekno from The Washington Post, Tuesday (12/1/2020).

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