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Apple Agrees to Pay Up to $500 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over 'Secretly Throttling' Older iPhones

GuilleA said:
I understand. Class-actions are meant to hurt the defendant financially and settle for large amounts and make them accountable for their actions, not to benefit the plaintiffs unfortunately.
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This is not always the case. I owned a home in the '90's that was plumbed with polybutylene piping which turned out to be a disaster waiting to happen. As the result of a class action lawsuit I qualified to have all the polybutylene piping ripped out and re-plumb the entire house with copper piping as well as receiving full reimbursement for the repairs and damages from two previous leaks that I had. The total bill for the plumbing, restoration and damage reimbursement amounted to several thousand (1995) dollars and didn't cost me a penny.

Of course the scale of that kind of problem was orders of magnitude different than having a slight performance degradation from a worn battery in a phone. But I'll take the $25 anyway since I own an iPhone 6s Plus.
 
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JosephAW said:
Why not just offer me a new battery for my iPhone 6?
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are you able to install it yourself? otherwise, most people will say, now what - now I have to pay some shop $45-$75 to install it for me? Apple already did the cheap installation last year for $29 - I know a lot of folks too advantage of it - I 'upgraded' my parents on the 6s even though they were still at 85% capacity
 
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Bump: I just got in my email the legal letter stating I'm entitled to $25 for this. I refuse to claim it on principle. Apple let the ambulance chasing lawyers win. I had all of the "affected phones", and I'm glad they throttled when my battery diminished in capacity. I can't believe people sued them over this. Its not even the consumers, its the ambulance chasing lawyers. Total garbage, Apple should not pay a dime.
 
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Nick_P said:
Bump: I just got in my email the legal letter stating I'm entitled to $25 for this. I refuse to claim it on principle. Apple let the ambulance chasing lawyers win. I had all of the "affected phones", and I'm glad they throttled when my battery diminished in capacity. I can't believe people sued them over this. Its not even the consumers, its the ambulance chasing lawyers. Total garbage, Apple should not pay a dime.
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I'm entitled to $50 according to my serial numbers. Basically lawyers 1, consumers 0. What even sells for $25 in the Apple store?
 
Nick_P said:
Bump: I just got in my email the legal letter stating I'm entitled to $25 for this. I refuse to claim it on principle. Apple let the ambulance chasing lawyers win. I had all of the "affected phones", and I'm glad they throttled when my battery diminished in capacity. I can't believe people sued them over this. Its not even the consumers, its the ambulance chasing lawyers. Total garbage, Apple should not pay a dime.
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The term "ambulance chaser" actually refers to personal injury lawyers, not attorneys who handle class action lawsuits. Those always start with a group of plaintiffs, and the lawyers set clear expectations to the plaintiffs about the possible outcomes, including settlement and their fees. For claimants, there are instructions if you want to speak at the 12/4/20 hearing about the fairness of the attorneys' fees. The $25 is only an estimate of the final possible settlement per claimant. If there are less claimants than estimated, then those qualified claimants will receive a higher amount. Whether or not you feel the attorneys' fees are fair, they are doing the job they were hired to do.
 
IMO, I put these class action lawyers exactly the same as ambulance chasers. They have lawsuits ready to go and just change the company name they are suing. Especially with Apple. Since Apple has grown from the underdog in the 80's and 90's, to the tech leader (financially) beginning when they introduced the iPhone, companies will use the Apple name in news articles (just for the click-bait), and lawyers will watch them like a hawk for any perceived wrongs (like in the case of the battery throttling). Its all the same vein as ambulance chasing lawyers, to me:)
 
Namara said:
The term "ambulance chaser" actually refers to personal injury lawyers, not attorneys who handle class action lawsuits. Those always start with a group of plaintiffs, and the lawyers set clear expectations to the plaintiffs about the possible outcomes, including settlement and their fees. For claimants, there are instructions if you want to speak at the 12/4/20 hearing about the fairness of the attorneys' fees. The $25 is only an estimate of the final possible settlement per claimant. If there are less claimants than estimated, then those qualified claimants will receive a higher amount. Whether or not you feel the attorneys' fees are fair, they are doing the job they were hired to do.
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I just got the class action post card in the mail , it shows the attorney fees as being nearly 100 million.


100 million in attorneys fees vs $25 for each claimant
 
I7guy said:
I'm entitled to $50 according to my serial numbers. Basically lawyers 1, consumers 0. What even sells for $25 in the Apple store?
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What does the Apple Store have to do with anything? You can get a check or ECH transfer into your bank account of $25 (estimated) per affected device. Spend it on whatever you want, Apple or elsewhere.
 
cocky jeremy said:
Is a $20 check really that important to you?
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The initial estimate seems to be $25, and that's per device (meaning it can be multiples of that amount for those with multiple devices). Also, some other similar type of settlement payouts came out to be a fair bit more than the smaller settlement amount that might have been initially estimated and expected.
 
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bobob said:
Those bastards!
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Seems like the issue wasn't really with that, but with how it was introduced without much communication or information about it and what that led to in various cases until much more information about it all actually became available after the fact essentially.
 
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bobob said:
Hopefully Apple learned their lesson and will no longer be trying to prolong the life of our iPhones as long as possible.

Make unexpected shutdowns great again!
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Again, seems like that's about something somewhat different, which although is related is outside the particular issue that was mentioned earlier.
 
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