Law Apple Sued for Being Utter Shits and Slowing Older Phones - It really took this long for people to realize Apple's shit?

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According to CNBC, “Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas brought a class action lawsuit in California — where they are residents — against Apple, an official filing revealed Thursday.”

“They claim that Apple never requested consent from them to ‘slow down their iPhones.’ Both plaintiffs are owners of an iPhone 7,” CNBC explained. “Bogdanovich and Speas claim they ‘suffered interferences to their iPhone usage due to the intentional slowdowns.'”

The two Apple customers are also claiming “economic damages and other harm for which they are entitled to compensation” and “are trying to get the case certified to cover all people in the United States who owned an Apple phone older than the iPhone 8.”

Apple confirmed they were slowing down older iPhone models on Wednesday, claiming it was in an effort to prevent random shutdowns which were taking place due to old lithium-ion batteries.

Several users on Twitter had claimed their devices were being “throttled” before Apple admitted to the practice, and many alleged the company was slowing down iPhones in an effort to force customers to upgrade.

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It's always nice to get that little extra "shove" to confirm that a terrible company is a terrible company. It's even nicer when it results in a lawsuit. It's almost a shame, too, because just earlier this week Apple ruled that any game with a "loot box" style system has to make the percentages for the loot boxes available to the public.

One step forward, two steps back, I suppose.
 
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i use older iPhones because i am a simple man that just wants a convenient email client and text interface. also Jail-breaking is quite easy to do on both Android and iOS devices so you can better own your device.

the intentional throttling is pretty piss poor though - i'm not entirely surprised it's a thing.
 
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I'm always amazed that Apple manages to sell their phones for the prices they do. Technologically, they're nowhere near the "premium" they are charging for.
I bought a Nokia 6 when they came out in Aus, and it's been great. There's definitely not enough difference between this and a top-end Samsung to justify the $700-1000 increase in price.
 
It's funny because my dad, who is kind of an Applefag, has been claiming this for years. I thought he was full of it.

Oh well, at least Apple further proves why I'm never using Apple products anyway.

It's definitely true. You can literally go into a terminal window and edit it out manually, or there are a number of tweaks that just do it automatically if you're lazy. Generally, both the CPU and GPU are underclocked. This also applies to iPads and other things running iOS. It's a .plist file although the name varies by device and iOS version.

I'm always amazed that Apple manages to sell their phones for the prices they do. Technologically, they're nowhere near the "premium" they are charging for.

It's become genuinely outrageous in the last couple iterations.

Bitches, you're using fucking slave labor, and you want over a grand for your phone? I'm not paying over a grand for a fucking phone.
 
Bitches, you're using fucking slave labor, and you want over a grand for your phone? I'm not paying over a grand for a fucking phone.
I'm not adverse to the idea of an expensive phone but it has to be actually that much better or more useful than the competition. My $200 Nokia android phone is doing things at least as well as the much more expensive Samsung and Apple flagship models, which cost 2-3 times as much. I'm open to the idea of buying a flagship device but I need to see it be at least three times as good if they want to sting me that much.
 
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Guess that's how Apple gets suckers to buy the latest products, give them a risk of their older products being bricked through future patches.
 
Guess that's how Apple gets suckers to buy the latest products, give them a risk of their older products being bricked through future patches.

I'm not convinced this was malicious. Doing this would actually extend the functional life of the phones. It was pretty ill-advised to do it without notification, though, especially since people like the jailbreaking community will immediately notice bullshit like this.
 
People have pointed out getting a new battery makes the phone's processing power go back to normal, but Apple owners are too dumb to even consider that option so they'll just spend 7-10x more on getting a new iPhone instead.

iPhones don't even have microSD slots yet so that says something about Apple.
 
Was paying attention to the comments section on phonearena's articles about this and some guy named Ray S., who claimed anyone who used the headphone jack is selfish and backwards got all hurt in the cunt about his God Fruit Apple being sued over this bit of """news""".

These Bulgarians have no fucking balls to admit that consumer tech hit a new low, and they delete their own comment threads shilling for Apple.

Not only that but GSMArena seems to have tightened up on the moderation of their comments section. If anyone else was called out on this aside from Apple you would bet they'd be allowed to post a lot of NEGHOLE worshiping comments on behalf of their favorite fruit.
 
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I wonder if there would be a market out there for a phone explicitly marketed as the un-Apple. Specs like...

  • Completely vanilla Android, so easy to Root even an idiot like me could do it (Or hell, even ship it rooted, if that is allowed. [I doubt it.])
  • Easily removable back
  • Easily replaceable, stock batteries...big ass ones that hold a charge a long time
  • If possible, maybe even some of the hardware replaceable?
  • Expandable storage, allowed as big as possible...maybe even ship it at 32 GB, though I guess that might bump the price up too much for some?
  • Headphone jack
  • No fucks given about facial recognition, wireless charging or glass backs
  • Easily replaceable screen - which I guess precludes it being waterproof, but whatever.
  • No fucks given about being 2 mm or (gasp!) even 4 mm thicker than than the average phone
  • Embrace the bezel, b/c why not?
  • Unlocked/accessible to every North American carrier
  • Probably would have to have dogshit cameras and speakers to make a low price point, but whatever
  • Obviously as low a price point as you can wring out of your Chinese slave laborers
  • Other random shit I'll think of later on today (like how much RAM, screen size) after my hangover wears off
Hell, maybe even embrace the phone thickness as some kind of marketing strategy. Hire some Kardashian lookalike THOT with some serious junk in the trunk to strut around with her ThiccPhone -- why not call it that? -- terrorizing Apple fags in those skinny jeans that look like they've had their testicles surgically removed to fit into them.
 
I wonder if there would be a market out there for a phone explicitly marketed as the un-Apple. Specs like...

  • Completely vanilla Android, so easy to Root even an idiot like me could do it (Or hell, even ship it rooted, if that is allowed. [I doubt it.])
  • Easily removable back
  • Easily replaceable, stock batteries...big ass ones that hold a charge a long time
  • If possible, maybe even some of the hardware replaceable?
  • Expandable storage, allowed as big as possible...maybe even ship it at 32 GB, though I guess that might bump the price up too much for some?
  • Headphone jack
  • No fucks given about facial recognition, wireless charging or glass backs
  • Easily replaceable screen - which I guess precludes it being waterproof, but whatever.
  • No fucks given about being 2 mm or (gasp!) even 4 mm thicker than than the average phone
  • Embrace the bezel, b/c why not?
  • Unlocked/accessible to every North American carrier
  • Probably would have to have dogshit cameras and speakers to make a low price point, but whatever
  • Obviously as low a price point as you can wring out of your Chinese slave laborers
  • Other random shit I'll think of later on today (like how much RAM, screen size) after my hangover wears off
Hell, maybe even embrace the phone thickness as some kind of marketing strategy. Hire some Kardashian lookalike THOT with some serious junk in the trunk to strut around with her ThiccPhone -- why not call it that? -- terrorizing Apple fags in those skinny jeans that look like they've had their testicles surgically removed to fit into them.

There was the FairPhone 2, but ever since one of the contributors in a promo video dropped I stand for Social Justice I said "fuck this" and accepted the fact that this is too good to be true.
 
It's textbook planned obsolescence, really, which every manufacturer engages in to some degree or another. Apple is probably particularly notable because of its popularity with types who normally oppose that sort of ~capitalist greed~ and because premium devices (which consumers expect to last a long, long time, since they're paying such a pretty penny) are exactly what Apple is known for. It's particularly frustrating with certain consumer electronics like computers and smartphones, because you could be paying hundreds of dollars or even $1,000+ for something that ultimately won't last you much longer than a mid-range equivalent that gets the job done just as well.

(I realize I'm a bit of a hypocrite--I'm typing this from a Samsung flagship--but mainly I just wanted the super nice camera and massive screen c; )
 
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It's always nice to get that little extra "shove" to confirm that a terrible company is a terrible company. It's even nicer when it results in a lawsuit. It's almost a shame, too, because just earlier this week Apple ruled that any game with a "loot box" style system has to make the percentages for the loot boxes available to the public.

One step forward, two steps back, I suppose.

This is new to people?
 
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