Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is the target of a new trial in which the clients demand compensation worth 125 million dollars from the American company and they could have chances to obtain this amount after the trial of the case. We are talking about a process that was initiated yesterday in Israel by customers dissatisfied with the fact that Apple slows down the iPhone through iOS depending on the degree of battery wear, the Americans officially recognizing this.
Apple now has the fifth lawsuit in which customers show their dissatisfaction regarding the fact that they do not want their iPhones to perform worse, even if the batteries have a certain degree of wear due to use for more than 1 year. Two men from Israel are behind this lawsuit and claim that Apple violated its obligations to customers because it did not disclose to them the changes imposed starting with iOS 10.2 for the iPhone.
Customers accuse Apple that iOS is too "closed" and that no one knows what the company is doing, all customers being "at the mercy" of the American company, which refuses to notify them about all the changes in iOS. They also claim that Apple violated its obligations to customers when it refused to disclose the "innocent" changes brought by the iOS updates, which had negative effects on the phones.
The customers who initiated the process claim that after the performance reduction, they were prevented from surfing the Internet, accessing their email boxes, or using various applications. Moreover, Apple is accused of hiding the truth about the changes made to stop iPhones suddenly shutting down in order to force customers to buy the newer models.
"Apple was hit with a 500-million-shekel (about $125 million) class action lawsuit in Israel on Monday, a week after the company admitted to deliberately slowing down the performance of older iPhone models. There is no doubt that information about the device slowing is important, and cardinal, and users had the right to get [that information] from Apple before deciding whether to install the software updates."
The reality is that Apple has its own interests when it avoids telling the truth about some changes in iOS and it is very likely to lose some lawsuits because of the way it thought about the updates.
