Apple faces £1.6b lawsuit in the UK over iPhone throttling

03 May 2023
The old batterygate rears its ugly head.

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Anonymous, 03 May 2023That cheaper battery replacement was a scam to be fair, the... morethey let it slide because the us government gets money, its the most valuable company right now and you dont just become one without influencing policy making of your home country and right now its too big for the government to take strict action against.

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    • Anonymous
    • SpI
    • 03 May 2023

    That cheaper battery replacement was a scam to be fair, they offered it for a limited time, knowing many would not claim just due to lack of hearing about it or being too lazy / not realising there was sufficient issue with their battery for it to be needed. It didn't resolve anything for people already impacted with getting a replacement phone due to the batteries dying or offer any real compensation for their extra cost. Apple are a scam show though and that's why they are obsessed with proprietary hardware they can overcharge for as well as closed off systems like the app store where they charge 30% for your app or service to be on there but then they are on there as well with no fee to themselves. Other companies at a 30% disadvantage to apple news, apple pay, apple music etc. Don't know how any market and competition authorities let that one slide.

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      • Anonymous
      • Q%m
      • 03 May 2023

      yikers, lawyers running out of cash to buy their next yacht again. need to get some (hopefully) from apple by suing them again from an issue that was dealt with years ago lmao

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        • Anonymous
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        • 03 May 2023

        Should be £16 billion

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          • 03 May 2023

          Anonymous, 03 May 2023Why is this being brought up now? This was years ago. Is... morepeople who suing wants some cash they running out of money.. this is absolutely not about poor harmed end users who has or had phones.. it is just opportunity..

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            • 03 May 2023

            jerem06, 03 May 2023Antennagate, iPhone bending, batterygate, voluntary slowing... moreu forgot to add gate with bending word ... BendGate

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              • 39y
              • 03 May 2023

              Why suddenly everyone started adding ''gate'' to everything ?? So now gate as door is now changed to drama or what is gate meme mean today ?
              Aaaaaah AppleGate....

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                • 03 May 2023

                UltraHD, 03 May 2023This is a 8 year old device, do people still expect to work... moreit's not about people .. it is way how they can extract money as goverment

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                  • 03 May 2023

                  Mr. Anonymous, 03 May 2023UK gov does need money, but Apple deserves to lose too.u naive u think it will go back to customers ??? tsss u can dream they will end in someone else's pockets

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                    • 03 May 2023

                    Oooh '''COUULLLD'' yeaaah .. so I already know it will never happen .. How best partner and friend country would fine them riiiight ?? All full of sht...

                      Mills, 03 May 2023So, the 6s COULD HAVE run faster. This woulda make phones a... moreUntil you took 2500 photos and filled up the 16GB of storage 😔

                        Anonymous, 03 May 2023That comment wasn’t even defending Apple, just stating a fa... moreThe Facts: Apple slowed down iPhones that turn off on their own to hide a fault. Apple charged users for design/manufacturing defect battery replacement

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                          AJ, 03 May 2023If this suit goes won, it is Government bullying at its fin... moreRight, blame everyone else instead of Apple for sneakily throttling phones that UK users bought with their own money. The assumption that giant tech companies can do no wrong is getting out of hand.

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                            • 03 May 2023

                            Anonymous, 03 May 2023Why is this being brought up now? This was years ago. Is... moreThere are plenty of Iphone 6 and 6S still in active use.

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                              Anonymous, 03 May 2023That comment wasn’t even defending Apple, just stating a fa... moreIts simple

                              Apple is greedy

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                                • Anonymous
                                • UG4
                                • 03 May 2023

                                Give these people 1.6b. Make them sign their names. Ban them for life from using iPhones.

                                I can forsee them begging and crawling back for iPhones. Face it, UK would rather use iPhones rather than Chinese Android phones... where they will cry security and privacy.

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                                  Anonymous, 03 May 2023This is more a battery thing than a Apple only issue. I... moreSo, the 6s COULD HAVE run faster. This woulda make phones at the time demolished if it could use it's full potential,

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                                    • 03 May 2023

                                    jerem06, 03 May 2023Here we are not talking about normal wear but premature, st... moreThat comment wasn’t even defending Apple, just stating a fact.

                                    But it seems that the only truth is to hate apple at all cost, and anything that doesn’t outright say “I hate them” is automatically defending them.

                                    Again every brand makes mistakes, if you hate one you should hate them all.

                                    I don’t even like them and Xiaomi but honestly people trow all the kind of trash af Apple to see what sticks.

                                    Stay true to the facts, there is enough to blame apple for but never enough for people hating them.

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                                      • 03 May 2023

                                      Let's gooooooo

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                                        potato4k, 03 May 2023Apple is completely at fault because Apple did NOT inform c... moreits literally called 'i-phone-for-S' for a reason.