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Apple Shells Out $3.4 Million to Chileans to Settle Planned Obsolescence Lawsuit

I7guy said:
I knew there was a problem when I got notified about a battery replacement.
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Which is great and shows that they wanted to take care of their customer. That's what you want and that's what you have good experience of. I would not belittle that at all.

I can understand the position that they knew there was a problem and wanted to fix it which is the right way to do things - kudos to them for that. But once they knew that there was more to it than that and that their geniuses and other diagnoses told them that it was just a bad battery, and they would definitely have known that early on from muitple channels, then that position is a little more difficult to maintain.

All companies are dishonest in many respects, as are consumers. But when you are found out, you need to face up and pay the piper. The important thing also is not to do it again.
 
I7guy said:
Not sure what you mean. Everything on the face of the earth has a limited lifespan, and it's determined by the software, hardware, abuse, etc.
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Well, a software/OS is not limited to "laws of nature". If phones dissolved into nothingness in 5 years I'd understand, but slowing down the OS intentionally on older models so you can sell more newer models has nothing to do with laws of nature and is nothing short of Android phones being obsolete within few years due to lack updates.
 
Precursor said:
Well, a software/OS is not limited to "laws of nature". If phones dissolved into nothingness in 5 years I'd understand, but slowing down the OS intentionally on older models so you can sell more newer models has nothing to do with laws of nature and is nothing short of Android phones being obsolete within few years due to lack updates.
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Vendors don’t have to slow down older phones intentionally. It’s the way it happens naturally with new software o/s on older hardware. Additionally some o/s just slow down on their own.
 
I7guy said:
Vendors don’t have to slow down older phones intentionally. It’s the way it happens naturally with new software o/s on older hardware. Additionally some o/s just slow down on their own.
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If you force your newer OS on older phones, that IS intentionally slowing down older phones. Plus Apple did intentionally and purposefully slow down the older phones "to save battery"/
 
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Precursor said:
If you force your newer OS on older phones, that IS intentionally slowing down older phones. Plus Apple did intentionally and purposefully slow down the older phones "to save battery"/
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Apple never forced an update on a phone. You could keep a phone on the version the phone shipped with. Of course, one would miss feature updates and security patches. And of course power management was active to save your phone from shutting down. Seems like a reasonable trade-off? (Maybe some don't view that tradeoff as reasonable)
 
Who profits from these lawsuits? I’d like to know if ONE single iPhone 6 user received any form of compensation for this, “crime.” I’m talking about a single individual person who originally purchased an iPhone 6 and “suffered“ due to their 5 year old phone slowing down. Any proof that a person received compensation?
 
3.4 million is probably how much Apple spent on lunches for their lawyers on the other side of this case.
 
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