I didn't apply for it, so I don't care. What I care is Apple chooses differently in the future when faced with such a choice, instead of keeping something hidden for PR reasons.
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Apple Starts Sending 'Batterygate' Settlement Payments to iPhone Users
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I didn't apply for it, so I don't care. What I care is Apple chooses differently in the future when faced with such a choice, instead of keeping something hidden for PR reasons.
Of course it was! they did not factor into equation a battery that could adequately support the sustain power deliver at lower state of charge. Hence they started shutting off at 20-30% at moderate to higher loads like GPS. This often happened to me while biking and having a GPS app on. The iPhone 6/6s had much bigger screens, started to have more powerful processors and the batteries were just inadequate.
How come this doesnt happen anymore? I've had many iPhones since, many with far lower degradation than 80% and they never turned off and the maximum performance setting always enabled. They just fixed their engineering flaws.
AGAIN, what I am saying is that Apple should have been TRANSPARENT about what they were doing instead of being SECRETIVE about it. That is the difference.
I have zero issue with the battery health optimization feature now that Apple has publicly come forward about it and has explained why it exists and that a battery replacement can improve performance. Now I know that I can just buy a new battery instead of thinking I need to replace my device so soon.
Apple probably paid only $310m, plus attorneys fees. Because the settlement amounts were more than $25/phone, which was the minimum, it means claims didn't even get to 12.4m, let alone 20m, which would have taken them to the cap of $500m. Given the amount paid per claim, it appears only about 3.34m valid claims were submitted.
Slowing down my phone, without telling me, is not a small tweak...It's was causes people to upgrade, and Apple knew that and was hoping people would do just that...and they got caught.
You keep saying they should have done thing... Get off it.. They should have done it, and they should have told us.
The fact you even know this justifies these payouts. Apple didn't tell anyone they throttled the speed.
I'm done with you and this argument. You have yet to say why it should have been kept a secret; explicitly why it would have better for Apple to not tell anyone.
Transparency should be the default, even when it's inconvenient. Lying by omission is lying.
If Apple is innocent in this, why did they settle so quickly instead of fighting this in court?
If the phone shut down in those situations people would have sued about it not having trotting.
Yeah, but $310-500m with cash payments is a pretty big chunk. Nuisance suits get settled for gift cards. Apple saw serious exposure here and was willing to pay at least $25/phone to avoid risk of even higher payouts.
They had been shutting down for years prior. My 3G did it, as well as my 5.
I specifically remember my 5 dying at 40% on a cold day hiking at Camel Hump in Vermont when trying to take photos.
Apple's motivation for making the change in software can be for legitimate reasons . . . but they didn't disclose what they were doing, particularly to people who were upgrading their software. And there's no reason they couldn't have done that - as they did subsequently. For example, in the release notes: "We are introducing battery management to ensure your phone doesn't unexpectedly shut down, and instead will see reduced performance to ensure continued operations."
The issue isn't the software change - it's the lack of disclosure about that software change.
No I didn't, nor did anyone else, because Apple had nothing to do with it, purposefully or on accident.
They chose incorrectly. They should have did what they done, and told people why.
Make it a conspiracy or not, they are paying out because they didn't tell anyone. It doesn't matter why they didn't, it just matters that they didn't. The reasons why aren't relevant.
The Class participants will probably get $10 each, but the lawyers will get millions.
They tried without telling people and then convinced them to get a new phone….
Way to read the article (or heck even look at the images above) that clearly show how much it is for....
I never got notification for this and just missed out on money to buy a carton of eggs, some bread, and milk
Whatever happened to the butterfly keyboard-gate that was supposed to pay out?
I'm sorry, but I do not agree at all. The issue was that Apple added this "feature" without telling people. If we had notice, we could opt in or out. Instead, many people thought their phone was simply slowing down because of hardware age and bought a new phone. Not cool...