In a new filing in the UK, Apple has been accused of deliberately slowing down iPhones and selling defective batteries. The complainant stated that the fine to be paid could be close to 1 billion dollars.
Apple, which was fined about $ 500 million for slowing down iPhones in the past years, came to the fore with a similar lawsuit today. In the lawsuit filed in this direction for the first time in the UK, the company is selling iPhones with ‘defective batteries’ and software updates. By slowing down iPhones was accused.
In the collective complaint filed by the former director of research at Citizens Advice, the independent organization in the UK, those affected Owners of iPhone 6, 7, 8 and X and below was declared. Gutmann’s claim on the website prepared specifically for the complaint was as follows:
“Apple violated competition law”
“Apple is abusing its dominant position in the respective iPhone and iOS markets, selling iPhones with defective batteries that do not provide peak power, and a business that slows down iPhones and causes performance issues. power management tool including It violated competition law by sending automatic iOS updates to iPhones.”
Number of affected users in the application filed with the UK Competition Appeals Court 25 million declared as. It has not yet been determined how much the penalty will be paid to users if Apple is found to be wrong. Gutmann and his lawyers that you can find $927 million stated.
The defense came from Apple:
After the allegations, Apple soon shared a defense. A spokesperson speaking on behalf of the company used the following words about the allegations:
“We have not and will never do anything that will intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product or disrupt the user experience to enable customer upgrades.”
Source :
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/apple-accused-of-misleading-iphone-customers-in-new-uk-lawsuit#xj4y7vzkg