IT DOES NOT MATTER if it was a benefit, UNLESS you let the end-user know. You don't want to know? Fine, I do, and millions of others want to know, but I wasn't given that choice.
The courts agreed. End of story.
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Apple Starts Sending 'Batterygate' Settlement Payments to iPhone Users
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IT DOES NOT MATTER if it was a benefit, UNLESS you let the end-user know. You don't want to know? Fine, I do, and millions of others want to know, but I wasn't given that choice.
The courts agreed. End of story.
I'm waiting for the butterfly keyboard settlement payment. That will be a big one, I got a whole top case replacement and a couple key caps replaced.
Because they were going to lose, and they knew it....they didn't want discovery, as well.
I'm not going to play the pendantics game. Have a good day.
By not being transparent about what they were doing, Apple knew that consumers would more than likely upgrade their devices since it wasn't publicly known that a simple battery replacement would solve the performance issues. I honestly question whether Apple informed Genius' that a battery replacement could fix performance issues. I think they kept this secret pretty close to the chest at the Executive level and that is why they settled instead of going to court. Apple is all about advertising features yet this one they didn't think consumers would want to know about? yeah ok... They deserved to lose this case.
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The issue is lack of transparency. Had they been transparent from the beginning, this wouldn't have been an issue. Consumers didn't know that a simple battery replacement would improve performance until it was proven to be the case by a consumer. I honestly don't believe Apple informed their Genius' either or word about this would have gotten out long before.
Tim Cook should have been fired for this. Not because of what actually happened...for his admitting fault where none existed and costing Apple hundreds of millions of dollars.
Why are you entitled to know the inner workings of Apple's iPhone CPU management?
Why am I not entitled to know that Apple is slowing down my phone, even if it's justified?
Planned Obsolescence
False. As soon as the "issue" started to make headlines, Tim Cook came out with his BP Oil "I'm sorry" nonsense and started offering free batteries. That was the same as admitting fault, and the entire public took it that way. Hence why Apple is being forced to pay up.
Had Apple simply stayed silent, or rather said, "The recent reports of Apple deliberately slowing down your phone to force you to upgrade are tabloid nonsense, that morons love to proliferate. How the iPhone CPU behaves and performs under various conditions is something that is tightly managed by Apple's engineers, for the betterment and safety of the device and the users. End of story."...it would have ended, and people would have moved to the next imagined controversy. Instead this failure of a leader validated internet morons, the worst thing anyone could ever do, because he stupidly thought it would avoid worse PR.
The fact that you think Apple even NEEDS to do that, let alone wants to or actually would, is flat out embarrassing. I'm actually embarrassed for you on your behalf.
That's a false choice and I'm not going to entertain it. No, I prefer they tell the user up-front what they are doing and why they are doing it.
Here is two only two valid choices that Apple had:
1) do nothing
2) do something, and tell the end user what and why.
No. What I am saying is Apple should have been transparent about throttle devices from the start. Had they done so, it never would have been an issue. Because they chose to keep it a secret until it was discovered, people didn't know that a simple batter replacement would improve performance. Which caused many users to upgrade thinking their device was the problem and not the battery.
How's that Kool-Aid tasting?
lol for someone who uses apple products I’m genuinely curious why you seem to be actively against them in almost everything they do.
I get that. But from a company that loves to talk about features, especially ones that are designed to help user experience, you'd think they would have informed consumers that a battery replacement would improve performance. They didn't because they wanted people to upgrade their devices instead of buying new batteries. They only came clean after they got caught. It is as simple as that.
What they tried to do was wrong. There is no reason they couldn't have told people about this up-front.
I've yet to hear a legitimate explanation why Apple should have withheld this information from the end-user. Not why they wanted to, why they should have.
It's a moral choice, and they chose incorrectly.
They did not tell the customers. Period. Spin it as much as you like. They aren't settling because they are being nice. They snuck in a feature that reduced the performance of some devices without explanation. Somehow they were able to include both an explanation and a toggle setting later. They just thought iPhone users were too dumb to understand.
Now, having had an iPhone 6 that random shut off due the poor battery performance at 20-30% left, a notice and a setting would have been appreciated from the getgo once they realized the problem existed. Not some "you're too dumb, we'll do it for you" tactic.
Because being a fan of something doesn't mean you overlook its faults. That's fanboyism, and I don't partake.
I don't want them to fail, I want them to do the right thing, even at their expense.
Apple settled because they feared a bigger financial penalty, the prospect of embarrassing communications in the discovery process, or very likely both.
They were clearly in the wrong for slowing performance without telling users. And thus they have to pay.
They were clearly in the wrong for slowing performance without telling users. And thus they have to pay.
You're forgetting that this was not happening to ancient devices, but rather barely 1 year old phones. If they simply decided to attribute it to degraded batteries, then they would have had quite the PR nightmare of producing junk stuff that barely lasts a year.
My iPhone 6 started doing this just over a year old, turning off by itself at 20-30% capacity remaining. Remember back in the day we had no battery health display, we did not know what the battery health was.
Even 0.001% of the people being affected is too much. Absolutely zero reason for them not to have told the end-user, none, other than hubris.
I find that incredibly insulting. I have never had an issue with Apple adjusting performance based on battery health. What I have an issue with is them keeping it a secret from the public and not advertising that a simple battery replacement could fix the performance issues. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is FACTS.
Enjoy your payouts boys and girls. Money for Nothing!
I guess if you need the cash that badly you claim. Spend it wisely.
I guess if you need the cash that badly you claim. Spend it wisely.