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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Apple actually admits to something, did hell just freeze over right now like really.

Ever since 2007 we already knew this was going to happen. Since the iPhone expanded on the iPod's philosophy of making it a game of Go to repair your own devices, almost every top shelf device is designed to throttle itself after a certain point. Apple is a worse case because they designed the OS to do this from the ground up. I used to own a 3GS and god damn was it a piece of shit after just a year. I only updated it once and it went smoothly, I refused the next update to keep things trim and then the screen backlight started to fail. Lithium Ion chemistry has nothing to do with software, there's no reason unless deliberate for the battery to fail due to a locked down OS that is getting less and less accessible to developers.

Also, still, up to $1,230 in the price tag just to use ALL the features out of the box on top of the initial expenses makes Apple the shittiest phone manufacture to date. It forces you to use a face scanner that isn't any better than what laptops and all in ones have had before almost a decade ago, the holiday shopping season failed to promote the iPhone X at a more reasonable price so to say it isn't a marketing failure (of course it still sells, so that part didn't fail) is seeing the glass half-full.
 
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I recently bought a sub-$100 handset released from earlier this year, it's the 2017 edition of a budget line by Samsung, and it's just an underpowered S5 without remarkable features. It runs fine, it runs just as good as the S3 I smashed to pieces out of sheer stupidity back in 2014 -- which was in perfect condition and performance up until it died. I didn't use a smartphone for most of the following years but decided the budget end was far more pro-consumer than the current premium end. This isn't rocket science, Nokia is back in the game to slap everyone back down to earth about how much you spend on shallow pocket computers. I don't use anything with a fancier connection beyond large and tiny USB plugs, I haven't bought into the flagship scene for a few years now and a $100 laptop had sufficed with great security and lightning fast boot up times. The premium market is going to crash pretty damn hard and the salt is going to be amazing when major players eventually stop making new flagships (read: repackaging) for 2+ years until necessary, when they stop selling as well as medium end options.
 
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No matter what those cunts can't make me buy their stupid new phones with no headphone ports and home buttons that aren't actually buttons. The last good idea they had was the iphone SE because for a company obsessed with form over function their new phones are getting pretty terrible designwise.
 
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Way too many people think iPhones are the only option, or they're such big Apple fanboys that they'll defend things like this.
As for Apple's various "form over function" designs such as missing headphone plugs, or chiclet keyboards and USB C plugs on their macbooks, even though next to no one (except Apple fanboys) want this shit, that doesn't stop other manufacturers from copying the design, then it becomes the only option whether or not you actually buy Apple products. For example, when's the last time you saw a laptop that didn't have chiclet keys? you can thank Apple for those stupid things.
 
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NumberingYourState said:
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I recently bought a sub-$100 handset released from earlier this year, it's the 2017 edition of a budget line by Samsung, and it's just an underpowered S5 without remarkable features. It runs fine, it runs just as good as the S3 I smashed to pieces out of sheer stupidity back in 2014 -- which was in perfect condition and performance up until it died. I didn't use a smartphone for most of the following years but decided the budget end was far more pro-consumer than the current premium end. This isn't rocket science, Nokia is back in the game to slap everyone back down to earth about how much you spend on shallow pocket computers. I don't use anything with a fancier connection beyond large and tiny USB plugs, I haven't bought into the flagship scene for a few years now and a $100 laptop had sufficed with great security and lightning fast boot up times. The premium market is going to crash pretty damn hard and the salt is going to be amazing when major players eventually stop making new flagships (read: repackaging) for 2+ years until necessary, when they stop selling as well as medium end options.
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Whilst I'm a huge premium Samsung fan, the lower end Samsung's are excellent value for money.
But again, I'm a huge Samsung lover... even if their batteries explode.

I feel like Android did something similar, as one of my older Samsung's is now unusable after updates. I rooted it etc as soon as I got it, but Android/Google force updated it anyway. So I don't think it's solely just an Apple thing.
 
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Has apple ever not been slowing down their older models?
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They are generally like that out of the box. The devices are slowed down usually to something like 80% of the rated CPU speed. You just have to remove that setting. This shortens battery life considerably, can result in the phone being more likely to overheat, and in theory, other performance problems, although I've never had any after doing it other than shortening battery lifespan and, possibly, some glitches when playing games, although I never really could prove it was the cause.
 
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They are generally like that out of the box. The devices are slowed down usually to something like 80% of the rated CPU speed. You just have to remove that setting. This shortens battery life considerably, can result in the phone being more likely to overheat, and in theory, other performance problems, although I've never had any after doing it other than shortening battery lifespan and, possibly, some glitches when playing games, although I never really could prove it was the cause.
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Huh. Maybe it was still a myth back when I read about it.
 
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.
 
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They've been the hard drives they put into their own machines for some time now. I can easily see this as happening.
What will happen next? Apple locks out all non-approved hardware (example: Certain brands of keyboards/mice?). It seems like they could also choose to make their laptops/desktops walled gardens. Don't let the user install anything that isn't from the official apple app store. Anyone who wants their third party programs to appear there would need to pay.
 
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