American Arizona started an investigation against Apple in order to establish whether an intentional reduction in the speed of the iPhone old models a violation of the law of unfair competition. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the documents in the case, appeared in his possession.
According to the Agency, the investigation involving several States began in October 2018. It is noted that the investigators had requested company information about “unexpected disabling” legacy devices and reducing the speed of their work.
On 1 June it was reported that administrative court of Lazio (Italy) upheld the request of the Antimonopoly bodies for the Apple pay 10 million euros to local consumers. The company will be required to pay this amount to the iPhone in Italy for the slowing of smartphones, caused by the update.
In early March, Apple agreed to pay $ 500 million as compensation to the owners of the old iPhone. According to the decision of the Corporation, the owner of each iPhone, which became slower as a result of updates, will receive $ 25.
The first such accusations Apple has made in 2017. Then the company acknowledged that slows down older models of its smartphones due to the fact that the installed lithium-ion batteries eventually lose capacity and their energy may not be enough. To the sudden disconnection didn’t happen, the company carried changes to the iOS operating system that slow down the performing certain tasks with a shortage of resources.
