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iPhone Slowdown Lawsuits Ordered to Be Centralized in Northern California District Court

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I'd still like to know what the outcome will be of a typical American who simply thought their phone was slowing due to software updates, and when told by an Apple store member, Apple was not slowing down, laid out $1000 on a iPhone X, only to find out weeks later, when the truth was out that they could of just had got a $29 battery fitted instead.

Are Apple going to offer some buy-back scheme for anyone who did this?
 
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Judge should rule that rather than any payout where a ******** goes to the ambulance-chasing lawyers, the payout goes towards cheaper iPhones next year
 
Piggie said:
I'd still like to know what the outcome will be of a typical American who simply thought their phone was slowing due to software updates, and when told by an Apple store member, Apple was not slowing down, laid out $1000 on a iPhone X, only to find out weeks later, when the truth was out that they could of just had got a $29 battery fitted instead.

Are Apple going to offer some buy-back scheme for anyone who did this?
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a new battery won’t make a 6 equal to a X.
 
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magicschoolbus said:
Go get em!

Think it's bad now? Just wait until those Apple chips start going in your $3k Mac and they suddenly slow down after 3 years.
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You show you have no idea what this entire thing is about or the reason for the slow downs. Might want to read up on it before making silly statements that are completely incorrect.
 
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I really don't understand why there is so much fuss over this. Would people really preferred that their phones just shut down when the battery was aged and couldn't provide enough power rather than running slower ?

Sure Apple should have communicated the function better, but I find it blown out of proportion.
 
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supercoolmanchu said:
That’s just low quality trolling.

Plug the MacBook Pro into a power adapter, and render away.

Do you know anything about how computers work?
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So why does the iPhone heavily throttle based on "battery health" (even when it reports as "Healthy") even when 100% charged and plugged in? :rolleyes:

Thanks for confirming Apple is either incompetent or fraudulent.
 
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That’s a shame, they get to buy the judge and jury now who will all be sympathetic to Apple in the first place.

Oh well I just hop the global government organisations have Apple on this issue instead. They fully deserve a kicking for what they did.
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csurfr said:
And tell people they did not.... it was just a little bit after they probably should have.
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Fixed that for you :) and over a year, and only because they were caught, is not a little bit after! Please don’t apologise for Apple on this issue. It’s embarrasing to do so.
 
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apolloa said:
That’s a shame, they get to buy the judge and jury now who will all be sympathetic to Apple in the first place.

Oh well I just hop the global government organisations have Apple on this issue instead. They fully deserve a kicking for what they did.
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Fixed that for you :) and over a year, and only because they were caught, is not a little bit after! Please don’t apologise for Apple on this issue. It’s embarrasing to do so.
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Nice. :cool:
 
applepuree said:
I really don't understand why there is so much fuss over this. Would people really preferred that their phones just shut down when the battery was aged and couldn't provide enough power rather than running slower ?

Sure Apple should have communicated the function better, but I find it blown out of proportion.
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If that's all this was about then why was my 6s, with a new replacement battery less than a year old being throttled? With 11.3 Battery Health tells me that my battery has 94% of maximum capacity and when I took it to the Apple Store months ago they told me my battery was "like new" and didn't need to be replaced, but maybe doing a restore of my iPhone would fix the sluggishness (it didn't). Before Apple introduced the throttling "feature", my iPhone has never randomly shut down at any charge level, including since upgrading to 11.3, except when used in very cold conditions at low charge levels (I get it trying to take photos on the mountain while snowboarding is a bad idea, I'm not complaining that my iPhone protested the cold). If the "function" was truly only designed to prevent random shut downs Apple applied it way too heavily, thankfully it is finally turned off with iOS 11.3.
 
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These are just frivolous lawsuits. Lithium batteries degrade over time and having performance kicked down a bit in order to have a longer charge is a reasonable compromise for a mobile device like a phone. What the hell is the point of turning on high performance just to have the phone shutdown much faster? Once a battery falls below 90% and definitely once it reaches 80%, it should be replaced. It's not expensive and is very easy to do especially on the iPhone 6-7. ifixit sells complete packages for under $30 with all the tools you'll need.

A lawsuit against Intel for Spectre/Meltdown would have more merit. The fix does result in performance drops and now Intel has admitted that lots of CPUs with Spectre v2 vulnerabilities will never see any sort of fix. This is really a disaster.
 
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supercoolmanchu said:
That’s just low quality trolling.

Plug the MacBook Pro into a power adapter, and render away.

Do you know anything about how computers work?
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Let's see... plugging in lightning adapter to my old iPhone 5 with the old original battery. INSTANT SPEED INCREASE. Oh wait, no.
 
bodonnell202 said:
If that's all this was about then why was my 6s, with a new replacement battery less than a year old being throttled? With 11.3 Battery Health tells me that my battery has 94% of maximum capacity and when I took it to the Apple Store months ago they told me my battery was "like new" and didn't need to be replaced, but maybe doing a restore of my iPhone would fix the sluggishness (it didn't). Before Apple introduced the throttling "feature", my iPhone has never randomly shut down at any charge level, including since upgrading to 11.3, except when used in very cold conditions at low charge levels (I get it trying to take photos on the mountain while snowboarding is a bad idea, I'm not complaining that my iPhone protested the cold). If the "function" was truly only designed to prevent random shut downs Apple applied it way too heavily, thankfully it is finally turned off with iOS 11.3.
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Yeah, an Apple employee also told me that the battery on my at the time iPhone 6 was fine and only had 400 cycles or so even though it wasn't. This was at the 5th Ave. flagship store no less. I wanted the phone to have a fresh battery before giving it to my mom. It still was a great phone in March of last year and it still is. I've kept it on 10.3.3 for her and the speed and experience is more than good enough.

A quick download of Lirum Info told me than the phone had 1000/1810 mAh. I checked with coconut battery as well. I took it to an indie shop and had it replaced. Problem solved and Apple lost business due to that idiot. I don't know if it's just me, but the quality of their "geniuses" has dropped. I've only had to deal with them a couple of times but I remember the service being impeccable back in 2008-10.
 
eoblaed said:
Lawsuits over this?

This is why we can't have nice things.
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I had an iPhone 6 (nice thing) become a paperweight, because Apple decided it should run in degraded mode.

This is why we can’t nice things.
 
mtneer said:
That is positive news for Apple. They will get a judge and jury sympathetic to the hometown company (if it goes to trial).
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In federal courts, hometown advantage is rarely much of an advantage. NDCal is slower than many other jurisdictions, which is usually good for the defendant, though.
 
magicschoolbus said:
You might want to let Apple know. According to them, your battery controls your processor, so it's related. Bad Macbook Pro battery? Good luck rendering that 4k video sucker.
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And then you couldn't render it anyway cause its a 2016 Model and throttles after 5 minutes on heavy load....
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applepuree said:
I really don't understand why there is so much fuss over this. Would people really preferred that their phones just shut down when the battery was aged and couldn't provide enough power rather than running slower ?

Sure Apple should have communicated the function better, but I find it blown out of proportion.
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See thats the problem, it is not a function. It is a defect. Apple selling a half assed workaround for a major design flaw as a feature might work for you. But most people see right through it.
 
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