Apple Will Be Forced To Pay Users Millions Of Dollars For Slowing Down Older iPhones As Another Conspiracy Theory Is Proven True

CBS News - Millions of iPhone owners whose older devices slowed down after software updates may soon receive a payday.

Apple will soon be paying out between $310 million and $500 million to up to roughly 3 million users of many pre-2018 model iPhones, lawyers for Apple customers said in a statement. The payouts will go to affected users who filed claims against the tech giant in 2020 for an issue that became known as "batterygate."

"[W]e can finally provide immediate cash payments to impacted Apple customers," said Mark C. Molumphy, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, one of the firms handling the suit on behalf of Apple customers.

The settlement comes after a judge dismissed Apple's appeal to challenge a class-action lawsuit filed against the tech giant in 2017, clearing the path for "consumers impacted by software throttling" to receive settlement payments, the claimants' lawyers said.  

"Software throttling" refers to software updates provided by Apple for its earlier iPhone models which had low-capacity batteries that wore out over time. The iOS updates purposefully slowed down the overall performance of users' iPhones when an aging battery was detected in order to prevent the devices from shutting down completely during "peak current demands."

Well, well, well. Mr. Apple, aka Tim Cook, should be ashamed of himself. Steve Jobs would never.

I have two friends, Jake and Bobby, who like most friend groups, had been screaming for years now, that each time Apple released a new iPhone they would bury the processing speed and slow the fuck down out of the older model phones on purpose. They'd make the already shitty battery life go off a cliff completely. We thought they were crazy because how could Apple time devices to go to shit at a specific date and time? Sure as shit they were right... They did it through the IOS updates.

Apple said its reason for reducing, or throttling, performance, was not to deceive customers into unnecessarily upgrading their iPhone — which only required a new battery — but to prolong the lifespan of the devices, the company told the Verge in 2017. The iPhones would return to their normal speeds once the deteriorated battery was replaced. 

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by Apple, according to the claim website.

Of course, no admission of guilt, just paying for fucking customers. Big difference.

How much as they paying out by the way?

If you filed a claim, you can expect to receive roughly $65 from Apple, attorney Mark C. Molumphy told CBS MoneyWatch. 

"It could be higher, as much as $85 to $90, depending on the number of claims submitted," he added.

Lol. Nevermind. What a joke. All that pain and suffering of your phone not making it 6 hours into the day without dying, effectively forcing you to cough up $800 for the latest model? Yah that's apparently worth $65.