iPhone users know the game: As soon as a new model is on the market, the old cell phone mutates into a crutch. Everything suddenly slows down, the keypad often no longer responds so well … If you have the money, you can quickly get the latest model.
Is Apple making old iPhones even slower? YES! The tech giant even admits that!
Affected include all those users who have downloaded certain technical innovations at some point: the iOS updates 10.2.1 and 11.2. Both throttle the iPhone, but cannot be undone. And Apple has not informed its users in advance.
The competition supervision “Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes” (DGCCRF) imposed the fine. Apple has already accepted the punishment as part of a settlement.
According to the BBC, the company must also indicate on its French website for a month that Apple has “committed the crime of fraudulent business practice through omission”.
However, Apple did not stop its controversial practice, but expanded it to include other models!
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The cheating became known for the first time in 2017. Apple argued that the iPhones would only be throttled to make them last as long as possible. Eventually an older battery loses its performance, the phones could suddenly switch off.
Of course, it was difficult to explain why the company did not simply point out this fact to its users.
Apple sticks to the controversial practice – now only without secrecy.
Regarding throttling the newer iPhones, the company said, “The impact of performance management on these newer models may be less noticeable due to their more advanced hardware and software designs.”
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