Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has already filed two lawsuits by dissatisfied customers due to the fact that iOS slows down iPhones after the battery exceeds a certain degree of wear in daily use. Just a day after confirming that it slows down iPhones with old batteries to prevent them from shutting down, a customer named Stefan Bogdanovich, from Los Angeles, has already opened the first lawsuit against the Americans.
Bogdanovich opened the lawsuit together with Dakota Speas, both people being unhappy with the fact that Apple slows down their phones through iOS after other new models appear, but without publicly saying so. The petitioners claim that they had old models of iPhones and discovered that they become slower after the new models appear, the Apple company reducing their performances without notifying them and without giving them the option to block the system that does this.
"Defendant breached the implied contracts it made with Plaintiffs and Class Members by purposefully slowing down older iPhone models when new models come out and by failing to properly disclose that at the time of that the parties entered into an agreement."
The two people demand that Apple disable this system from iPhone phones and demand that the process cover all customers in the US, something that could happen if Apple is not too convincing. I still find it interesting that the US press covers the Apple company and considers the practice normal, although in reality it is unrealistic to consider that reducing the performance of a 1-year-old phone is good, if you are not paid to do this.
Apple has opened two lawsuits after the intentional slowing down of the iPhone
The second lawsuit was opened against Apple in Chicago, people from 4 American states with phones from iPhone 5 to iPhone 7 accusing Apple of deceptive, immoral and unethical practices. Moreover, they claim that Apple violates the American legislation with its practices, forcing customers to buy new phones after the current ones have their performance unnecessarily reduced by Apple.
They also say that replacing the battery is the simplest solution to solve the problem without affecting performance, and the people from Apple replaced batteries for a while, until they realized that they had too many to replace. The reality is that Apple should have replaced defective batteries instead of reducing performance, but when profit matters more than the customer, you do what you can to make more money.
"Apple needlessly subjects consumers to purchasing newer and more expensive iPhones when a replacement battery could have allowed consumers to continue to use their older iPhones."
From my point of view, the idea of reducing performance to keep iPhones on, even if they have old batteries, is good IF you give the customer the option to choose if they want that. Since Apple forces you to accept this without giving you any option, maybe it would be good for a court to teach it to respect its customers, especially since it is the only manufacturer with such a stupid practice.
