Apple can recover $ 1.1 billion due to a slowdown in Britain
The Apple corporation demanded more than a billion dollars through the court due to a scandal that occurred almost 10 years ago. This is reported by Appleinsider.
The UK appeal did not satisfy Apple’s application for a deviation of the claim in the amount of 853 million pounds, or about 1.1 billion dollars. The plaintiffs demanded compensation from the American IT giant to users who suffered from slowing their smartphones associated with BattyGate.
Battygate – the term used to describe the deliberate slowdown of the processor on the iPhone in order to prevent disconnect. In 2016, it turned out that Apple specially reduced the frequency of chips in smartphones with a worn or old battery. Later, the company apologized to consumers and even paid compensation to a number of users.
The lawyers of the plaintiffs in the UK told Appleinsider that Apple tried to reject the lawsuit from British citizens, but could not. The consumer protection activist Justin Gutmann, who filed a lawsuit in 2022, said that the company had to warn 24 million of its users in the UK before slowing down their gadgets. Now from Apple they can recover a large amount.
In early March, the Brazilian regulator demanded from Apple to allow the download of apps on the iPhone bypassing the App Store. The company was given 90 days to remove the ban on third -party stores with applications.
Source: Lenta
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