Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), was sued in 9 separate lawsuits after officially admitting that it slows down the iPhone due to the degree of battery wear, customers feeling cheated by the American company. Yesterday I told you about the fifth trial in which two Israelis are asking $125 million from Apple for slowing down the iPhone, and today we are talking about another one.
In the meantime, 4 other open lawsuits were discovered against Apple because of the iPhone, but in one of them the customers are demanding damages of 999 billion dollars from the American company. Of course, no court will award such an amount as damages, but at least this way we can see what has been achieved in terms of the situation in which the Apple company got into.
Apple. 9 iPhone performance lawsuits with ridiculous demands
Apple is also accused in this process of deceiving its customers when it slowed down their iPhones without telling them what it was doing and what the solution was to keep performance at a high level. Customers say they were tricked into buying new phones because the old models were very slow, even though they could perform better with a simple battery replacement, which is cheaper than buying a new phone.
"Each member of the Class had to buy a newer iPhone model because the performance of their older iPhone model had slowed down as a result of Defendant's purposeful conduct. Each member of Class was denied the use, utility and value of the older iPhone model because of the slowdown of performance."
The reality is that Apple has lost a lot of credibility, from my point of view, with this decision to slow down phones arbitrarily without saying what it is doing and what solutions exist to avoid it. Now we have 9 known lawsuits opened against Apple, but their number will increase and when it reaches a large enough number, the company will find a method to offer the possibility to disable the changes manually, I think.
