Yeah, if a lawyer is going to use MY information to sue someone, they’re going to have to pass more of the money to me.
Happy for those where $65 will make a difference in their lives, though.
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Apple Will Soon Send Payments in $500 Million 'Batterygate' iPhone Throttling Lawsuit
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Happy for those where $65 will make a difference in their lives, though.It should at least be the price of a phone, or the cost of the phone at the time. Or even half the price of the phone since some would have upgraded earlier than they wanted. $65 is just a slap in the face to most.Yeah, if a lawyer is going to use MY information to sue someone, they’re going to have to pass more of the money to me.
I didn't bother applying since I had no issues (I get a new one every year). But the current issue with 14Pro is that my battery health is down to 90% after just 10 months. Never had that before. Bothersome. Maybe I'll claim if this one goes further.
Apple should have been forced to send a check to everybody (who bought one of these devices new) using their appleid and device identifiers.
That the harmed customers had to file a claim is BS.
That the harmed customers had to file a claim is BS.
Even when my sister came for the special battery replacement, the sales guy at the Apple Store tried to tell her that her display was failing and cage should replace the phone. She was like 😒. No.
I never had an issue with battery throttling, but I did have issues with the 4S being unusable on iOS 9. That lawsuit was absolutely justified.
Throttling started earlier than that with iOS 10.2.1 in January 2017. iPhone 6S launched in September 2015. It was a year and a bit.
It took Apple a year to finally admit throttling in December 2017.
Yeah but that would’ve cost Apple a trillion dollars in bad PR. Everyone knows there’s nothing complex or special about charging a phone and Apple would’ve been mocked similar to the way they were on antennagate.
I guess I’d be eligible - but I would not want a penny. Apple probably should have notified customers but I “suffered” not and claim no inconvenience or damages.
No, it’s more like a few lawyers saw an opportunity, found at least a few customers that would ‘say’ they were outraged (even though they may have been upgrading phones yearly and never noticed) and then their payday just depended on people signing onto the class action. Their goal was never to make things “right” by customers, it was to get a payday for themselves.
this one “controversy” is the biggest source of chronic headaches for me when talking about iPhones with people who are…uh…I’ll just say normal in terms of the websites they browse.
this single hit piece that every single news outlet picked up and sensationalized made a vast majority of people adopt a mob mentality about planned obsolescence in Apple’s most popular product when it factually isn’t true. it went way beyond the specifics outlined in the case, leading people to believe Apple just generally slowed down older iPhones at all times.
should Apple have notified people “hey, your battery’s degraded, performance might suffer at lower percentages [on newer operating systems made to take advantage of more powerful processors and bigger batteries]?” sure. do I think the lack of notification is worth $500m? no. especially with the amount of battery health-related features Apple has implemented since.
I’m not even annoyed with this lawsuit—Apple has plenty of money and I don’t care what it goes to as long as they consistently make good products. I’m annoyed that “Batterygate” is a thing in the first place.
at least Bendgate had some substance. my 6 bent and it wasn’t even a Plus, nor did I ever put it in my back pocket…but now people complain that iPhones are too thick. grass is always greener or something like that.
this single hit piece that every single news outlet picked up and sensationalized made a vast majority of people adopt a mob mentality about planned obsolescence in Apple’s most popular product when it factually isn’t true. it went way beyond the specifics outlined in the case, leading people to believe Apple just generally slowed down older iPhones at all times.
should Apple have notified people “hey, your battery’s degraded, performance might suffer at lower percentages [on newer operating systems made to take advantage of more powerful processors and bigger batteries]?” sure. do I think the lack of notification is worth $500m? no. especially with the amount of battery health-related features Apple has implemented since.
I’m not even annoyed with this lawsuit—Apple has plenty of money and I don’t care what it goes to as long as they consistently make good products. I’m annoyed that “Batterygate” is a thing in the first place.
at least Bendgate had some substance. my 6 bent and it wasn’t even a Plus, nor did I ever put it in my back pocket…but now people complain that iPhones are too thick. grass is always greener or something like that.
No Samsung devices spontaneously rebooted. Nice lie.🤦♂️
That update *immediately* destroyed the batteries in my iPod Touch, iPhone 6s+, and my iPhone 5s. Within an hour of the update of my Touch, tbe battery swelled red hot, and popped off the glass cover.
It was one of the most malicious things I have ever seen a company do, outshined only by Ford and GM with their exploding cars.
It was then I realized Apple had gone over to the Dark Side, masked by pretty marketing. Their PR is even better now, but the rotten, evil core management remains.
It was also when I began to realize, that the solution was NEVER UPDATE.
(Are you allowed to mention shilling in threads or does that against the rules here?)
It was one of the most malicious things I have ever seen a company do, outshined only by Ford and GM with their exploding cars.
It was then I realized Apple had gone over to the Dark Side, masked by pretty marketing. Their PR is even better now, but the rotten, evil core management remains.
It was also when I began to realize, that the solution was NEVER UPDATE.
(Are you allowed to mention shilling in threads or does that against the rules here?)
seriously?
Because they wanted the phones to seem “old and slow” to sell more phones
It was a scam
Well people should sue Apple anyway if they didn’t release the fix and their barely 3 year old phones were randomly stop working. People should sue Samsung too.
Pretty much all laptop manufacturers and modern smartphone manufacturers suffer from limitations of physics.
Uh no. The update went out after the Note 7 fires were still popping in the news. Apple didn't want to the media attention diverted away from their competitor.
Good to see the settlement amount is finally being paid out.
Quick question; why did people think the only way to solve this was to replace the entire device? Were people just ignorant to how batteries work?
Anecdotally I was telling my boss that my iPhone 6S (botched battery, but I didn't know it) needed to be replaced due to phone reboots right before they released the "throttling patch", which all of a sudden made my device stable and perfectly usable again.
Not saying that I like the lack of transparency of what was happening, but I really doubt a measure to prevent crashes was done to make the user experience worse.
Apples biggest mistake was not being open about it.
The fix was not sinister at all. Not telling people was.
This. The mistake was the lack of information. That’s why the throttling itself still exists, because it is the right thing to do with a battery that can’t handle the required power draw.