Why is apple so self obsessive over its technology to the point of even resorting to seedy and dirty tricks just to make consumers purchase a new phone. Do they like being sued?? Because among several suits smashed on their heads this week, there is one suit worth a whopping 1 trillion dollars. Yes!! That’s right; Apple is being sued for 1 trillion dollars
1Apple sued for 1 trillion dollars
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The company has been hit with precisely 9 lawsuits as reported by Reuters among which one is 1 trillion dollars. Fresh on the heels of battery gate last week when Apple actually admitted that they have deliberately been slowing down older phones to save battery juice, the company has been hit with lawsuits filed in the US district courts of Illinois, California and New York. A similar suit has even been filed in Israel.
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2Lawsuits claim fraud, deliberate manipulation and misleading information
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The lawsuits filed by individuals have claimed that the tech giant has deliberately slowed down devices to compensate for poor battery performance and was done without warning to users. The company has officially admitted they slowed down phones using a software change that occurred last year. During the time, many were speculating about the possibility of such a thing happening with iPhones. Now that fear has been confirmed and yes!! Apple has been resorting to such practices.
The company said they slowed down performances for battery life and it has affected the iphone6, iPhone 6S, iPhone SE and iPhone 7. This was done to prevent them from unexpected Shutdowns.
The lawsuits allege that users were deliberately manipulated and misled into purchasing new phones instead of just replacing the batteries which would have been a fraction of the cost.
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