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

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.

 

[polonium]

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.

Most of this, yes. You can get a Nokia 6 or a Moto G5 or something like that, which is basically 12 month old (or at worst 18 month old) "flagship" technology for way less than half the price of this year's flagship. In the case of Nokia, they specifically run vanilla Android, which is why I chose it (I was going to plurge on the latest Google Pixel till I saw the Nokia next to it in JB Hifi)

Google has been playing around with the modular phone concept for a while but haven't managed to bring it to market yet. They either haven't figured out how to overcharge people for it, or else something about the physical design is too gnarly to solve. Probably the connectors don't last a lot of repeated plug/unplug operations, or let too much dust in or something.

 

[LulzKiller]

Moto G5

i can attest to this

 

[CIA Nigger]

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.

At least many android phones have ways of downgrading them, or custom ROMs. Apple doesn't have that luxury. They go out of their way to stop you from downgrading (See: SHSH Blobs)

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.

That's why I buy phones from Aliexpress and similar sites. The only real downside is oftentimes you won't get LTE in the USA on the cheaper phones but you can get 10 cores, a HD screen, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, a headphone jack, and a MicroSD slot for just $150.

 

[AnOminous]

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.

In this case, though, the allegations of malice seem to be based on doing something that would actually extend the lifespan of the product. It's literally the opposite of planned obsolescence.

 

[Zoobles]

It's literally the opposite of planned obsolescence.

planned obsolescence is the conscious act of making something outdated or irrelevant. It may extend the life of the phone, but at the sacrifice of the device's relevance. Considering the likelihood of consumers to "trade up" their obsolete devices, the salvage value of the item increases on Apple's end and its obselecense is delayed once again when they refurbish it with a new batter yand bring the processor power back to capacity

 

[autism420]

Holy shit you people are retards. It literally makes phones with shit, damaged batteries usable. Like how far will you guys go to shit on Apple for making their old products still usable, just because they make good shit and all you can afford is Android garbage

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

This is new to people?

Spoiler: bitchy speech ahead

Only because people forgot the original explanation Apple wasted their PR cred on and it was a ripe display of 'lol no1curr'. People who use an iPhone enjoy their iPhone too much, apparently wow no shit. As for history it's usually them double-dipping on excuses as to why things are happening before finally admitting it. This case? Only been about ten years so most people don't really bother wasting their breath up until Apple admitted it themselves in plain text.

Apple didn't admit that the iPhone 4 had conductivity issues with the antennae, meaning you could block off the signal and drop calls because you're "holding it wrong". They handed out plastic antennae band covers to 'fix' the problem later.

iPhone 5S could be repaired with the same amount of effort as the iPhone 4/4S/5, as disassembly videos reveal. The catch? The home button and scanner are adopted to their respective boards at the factory, meaning if the serial number doesn't match the one on the phone you bought, you have to put up with a touch assistant that is stuck in the middle of your screen in case of driver compromise. Apple just advised you buy the original iPhone 5 instead.

iPhone 6 (mostly the plus model) didn't have a grade of aluminum that was capable of handling bodily heat without warping and bending. If it's cold outside there's less of a chance of your shiny new toy getting disfigured from normal use. Apple's excuse is the same as with bad battery life, people enjoy their phones too much or should just buy a case (which most smart consumers already have done). Eventually a new batch of 6+'s seemingly lacked this issue, hmm wonder why right?

iPhone 6S's purchased earlier this spring had issues with the touch gradually failing, coupled with gradual display failure altogether. The phone would still technically be functioning, but the screen and touch sensor would fail altogether. Apple's excuse? Stop dropping your phone you idiot who just took it out of the packaging as I say this.

iPhone 7: took courage to remove useful shit people still use when they're not buying into the wireless earbud trend, that's okay use our patented ear dicks we claim we invented. I love having to lug around about three things to charge plus the portable power box it came with.

iPhone X is over a thousand dollars and is totally the value price you get for the technology, though said tech that makes it possible to quickly charge your phone in under an hour is not even part of a bundle package: you gotta hand over the shekels for that too poor goy. The face scanner software wasn't even half finished when this piece of shit launched, and instead of using an on-screen home button you swipe up from as far bottom as you could because that's not irritating at all while browsing the internet or scrolling through search results over and over again. No one is even trying to put a holiday discount on this thing because buying the protection plan means devaluing the cut price tag. It's buyers remorse no matter which other way you go.

TL;DR -- Apple is shit because of unsurprising reasons everyone knows, but Apple never puts it into plain text like they had now.

 

[Dysnomia]

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.

Suddenly I kind of sympathize with Sebitchian here: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/se...replace-his-iphone-battery-in-timely-fashion/

On Friday, the singer, who had apparently been experiencing issues with the battery in his phone, used his platform of over 426,000 Twitter followers to air out his latest grievance with the Steve Jobs-founded company, recounting a visit to his local Apple store that did not end as he hoped.

"Just tried to get a new battery for my iPhone 6s because they have made my battery not work anymore," Bach tweeted. "Girl at Apple store said it was possible to get a new battery for $75 but I would have to come back in about an hour to discuss this. So fucking lame."

After sticking around until a later time, Bach apparently ended up seeing another employee who told him that he would have to wait a bit longer to get his phone fixed.

"Just went back to the Apple store after an hour," Bach tweeted. "Now the dude tells me to come back in an hour and 40 minutes! Hey, Apple store at fashion square mall Sherman Oaks California, YOU SUCK"

Earlier today, Bach tweeted yet another update, making it clear that he did not end up getting the kind of speedy service from Apple that he expected.

"Thank [you] Apple [for] trying [to] help in quest [for] 6s battery replacement. Was all excited to go back [to the] store for third time but then read that this 'should be completed within a few hours.' By 8 p.m., I'm kinda done with the mall. 10-11 p.m. seems more like an operation than replacing a battery."

Maybe his battery issues are due to not wanting to upgrade since he likes the headphone jack and the ease of hooking the device up to audio equipment.

You should be able to use an old phone until it's no longer supported. Apple just wants you to keep buying new products by making you think your phone has turned to trash.

I don't use Apple and I don't even have a smartphone. But I'd be pissed if my phone started acting up because Apple wanted me to spend more money when I was already happy with what I had.

 

[El Garbage]

Apple just wants you to keep buying new products by making you think your phone has turned to trash.

Your phone was trash in the first place if you bought Apple.

 

[Asa_Spades60]

did hell just freeze over right now like really.

Why does it matter? Most of us will still be going there.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Why does it matter? Most of us will still be going there.

Steve Jobs is currently selling Beats at a popup shop by the Styx river, in case you wanted some overpriced pretentious audio equipment.

 

[vertexwindi]

Steve Jobs is currently selling Beats at a popup shop by the Styx river, in case you wanted some overpriced pretentious audio equipment.

First it was blue boxes, then it was overpriced hardware, now overpriced headphones? That guy will never stop, will he?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Another interesting point: Independent filmmakers who use the iPhone instead of an actual camera like say a RED Weapon (wew communist sounding brand name), are likely going to be hit by this the hardest. One guy produced a two hour long movie using the iPhone 7 or whatever, yeah the one that doesn't let you attach any audio equipment without expensive adapters. Overcompensating under performance. He wouldn't have much of a career either way.

Like, really, you're going to use a phone that has the lifespan of a goldfish as a main studio equipment just to get around the fact that film production is still more expensive than the technology involved?

 

[AnOminous]

Another interesting point: Independent filmmakers who use the iPhone instead of an actual camera like say a RED Weapon (wew communist sounding brand name), are likely going to be hit by this the hardest. One guy produced a two hour long movie using the iPhone 7 or whatever, yeah the one that doesn't let you attach any audio equipment without expensive adapters. Overcompensating under performance. He wouldn't have much of a career either way.

Like, really, you're going to use a phone that has the lifespan of a goldfish as a main studio equipment just to get around the fact that film production is still more expensive than the technology involved?

You shouldn't be doing off-label uses of consumer electronics like this unless you can circumvent restrictions like this anyway. It's trivial to circumvent this, and it's surprising nobody noticed it before now. The out of the box underclocking has been a known thing for years, and you can easily jailbreak and fix it from the command line, and if not, Cydia has free apps to do it instantly.

 

[LocalFireDept]

Most of this, yes. You can get a Nokia 6 or a Moto G5 or something like that, which is basically 12 month old (or at worst 18 month old) "flagship" technology for way less than half the price of this year's flagship. In the case of Nokia, they specifically run vanilla Android, which is why I chose it (I was going to plurge on the latest Google Pixel till I saw the Nokia next to it in JB Hifi)

Google has been playing around with the modular phone concept for a while but haven't managed to bring it to market yet. They either haven't figured out how to overcharge people for it, or else something about the physical design is too gnarly to solve. Probably the connectors don't last a lot of repeated plug/unplug operations, or let too much dust in or something.

Project Ara got shitcanned for basically not being able to accomplish the processor being replaceable so the whole thing became stupid. Don't count on it being revisted soon with the penny pinching Jew running Google's finances now.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Project Ara got shitcanned for basically not being able to accomplish the processor being replaceable so the whole thing became stupid. Don't count on it being revisted soon with the penny pinching Jew running Google's finances now.

Also the way smartphone motherboards are designed would make it so that just replacing the whole board yourself individually would be sustainable. But that would require a baseline format for all sizes of smartphones to be feasible whatsoever. We're never getting a PC-style market for phones, just not 'capitalist' enough I guess(?)

 

[LocalFireDept]

Also the way smartphone motherboards are designed would make it so that just replacing the whole board yourself individually would be sustainable. But that would require a baseline format for all sizes of smartphones to be feasible whatsoever. We're never getting a PC-style market for phones, just not 'capitalist' enough I guess(?)

The real problem is there's no good way to reliably afix the processor to the "backbone" bus that won't turn it into a horrible error prone mess because it got unhappy from being jarred a tiny bit. Fault tolerance and also the speed of the bus were the biggest hurdles with Ara, and while you can hotswap just about everything you can't do that with the CPU.

It's a shame because the live Ara demo, even with the processor locked to the frame, was still very promising. At least you could upgrade your frame and keep your modules. That plus the electropermenant method they used to attach mods still having issues holding together when being dropped meant it wasn't going to make it to market.

tl;dr everything being soldered in place makes sense when it moves. The modular home PC doesn't like moving much.

 

[AnOminous]

Also the way smartphone motherboards are designed would make it so that just replacing the whole board yourself individually would be sustainable. But that would require a baseline format for all sizes of smartphones to be feasible whatsoever. We're never getting a PC-style market for phones, just not 'capitalist' enough I guess(?)

The people who run the phone network start freaking out when you start attaching stuff to it that might as well be a blue box. Like that Steve Jobs guy used to distribute.

 

[m0rnutz]

I still have my 2g in a box, that bitch was so slow you had to lock and unlock the screen close to 25 times before it would let you slide the little button over.

Also I don't know where the fuck you guys get your shit, but all my tech past 2012 hasn't had the capabilities of modification, past desktops. If it breaks, it breaks. If it slows down, get a new one.

(Where the Pai salt at?)

 

[Shiversblood]

THOSE MOTHER FUCKING APPLE BASTARDS!!!!!!! THE RICH GETTING RICHER, AND MAKING THE POOR SUFFER WHILE THEY ARE AT IT!!!!
CAPITALIST PIGS!