{"id":55523,"date":"2017-12-27T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55523"},"modified":"2017-12-27T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:58:36","slug":"apple-now-facing-eight-lawsuits-admitting-slowing-old-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-now-facing-eight-lawsuits-admitting-slowing-old-iphones.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Now Facing Eight Lawsuits After Admitting to Slowing Down Old iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple Is Now Facing Eight Lawsuits After Admitting to Slowing Down Old iPhones<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple (AAPL, -2.59%) defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the company opened up about the year-old software change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The tweak may have led iPhone owners to misguided attempts to resolve issues over the last year, the lawsuits contend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">All the lawsuits\u2014filed in U.S. District Courts in California, New York and Illinois\u2014seek class-action to represent potentially millions of iPhone owners nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A similar case was lodged in an Israeli court on Monday, the newspaper Haaretz reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple did not respond to an email seeking comment on the filings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The company acknowledged last week for the first time in detail that operating system updates released since \u201clast year\u201d for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 included a feature \u201cto smooth out\u201d power supply from batteries that are cold, old or low on charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Phones without the adjustment would shut down abruptly because of a precaution designed to prevent components from getting fried, Apple said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The disclosure followed a Dec. 18 analysis by Primate Labs, which develops an iPhone performance measuring app, that identified blips in processing speed and concluded that a software change had to be behind them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">One of the lawsuits, filed Thursday in San Francisco, said that \u201cthe batteries\u2019 inability to handle the demand created by processor speeds\u201d without the software patch was a defect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cRather than curing the battery defect by providing a free battery replacement for all affected iPhones, Apple sought to mask the battery defect,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 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