Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he is part of a third trial in the USA, behind the two from yesterday, after admitting that it slows down iPhones with old batteries through iOS, this time the company being accused of doing it on purpose to avoid repairing the phones. The person who sued Apple claimed that he previously owned an iPhone 6 that shut down suddenly when it had more than 50% of the battery available, but which had also become extremely slow.
The Apple company slowed it down through iOS because the battery was too old, and instead of telling the customer what the problem was (and asking for a free replacement), they forced him to buy a new model more expensive than 1000 dollars. This last choice was a personal one, because he didn't have to spend so much money on the phone, but the battery didn't have to be replaced for free if the phone was older than 1 year, in the USA.
The third lawsuit accuses Apple of slowing down iPhones in order not to repair them
The man's lawyers accuse Apple of lying when it said that iPhones are affected by bad batteries used by the company and that it did not want to repair all the defective units. Apple did not have the obligation to replace the batteries of phones that were out of warranty, but for those that were still under warranty it had to do it, but it decided to do it only for the iPhone 6S, even though it had only been released for a few months when the problems appeared , iPhone 6 being also affected.
"In a filing with the US District Court for the Northern District of California, lawyers for plaintiff Keaton Harvey explained that a prior iPhone 6 of his suffered from spontaneous shutdowns despite having more than 50 percent charge, and became extremely slow, eventually leading him to buy a new iPhone at a cost of over $1,000.”
The man demands that Apple include in iOS detailed information on the mechanism that slows down iPhones and offer the possibility to disable it for those who want it. More than that, he demands the reimbursement of the people who bought defective iPhones, or the repairs for them, and to offer new batteries for those that still have reduced performance.
The reality is that Apple has effectively cheated its customers with this problem of the bad batteries it uses in the iPhone, and this will affect the trust of some customers in the company.
