Yet another set of lawsuits won against Apple's lawyers, admittedly the best on the planet - and yet - they still lose $113M USD (because Apple secretly purposefully shortened the life of iPhones)

[Arlen Holder]

(1) Note: Apple throttles almost all iPhones out there today; not just the
iPhone 6S which is the phone that was cut in half speed that Apple admitted
doing expressly, after about a year, purposefully to shorten its life.

o Apple publicly agrees it committed the crime of purposefully shortening iPhone life
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/l6gAjvW6aqQ>

(2) Apple agrees to pay $500M for purposefully secretly slowing down iPhones
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/apple-agrees-to-pay-iphone-owners-in-settlement-over-slowing-down-older-models/2020/03/02/c026789c-5c9d-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html>

(3) Dateline today...
Verbatim because apologists deny everything they don't like about Apple
(which is almost everything that is a fact about Apple) preferring,
instead, to only believe in the pure bullshit of glossy MARKETING hype.

"Apple had provided 'misleading information' about its iOS updates"

"the company relied on 'unfair and deceptive acts and practices' to
boost its sales 'potentially by millions of devices per year,'
according to Arizona's attorney general.

o Apple to pay $113 million to settle state investigation into throttling
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/18/apple-fine-battery/>

"The saga drew national headlines in 2017, as iPhone users began
to discover that some of their older devices experienced slowdowns
after they updated to a newer version of iOS"

"That December, Apple acknowledged the practice, explaining that it
had tweaked its technology starting a year earlier so that some
older models, including the iPhone 6S, did not shut down unexpectedly
or experience other malfunctions"
--
Apple admitted to the crime of purposefully secretly shortening iPhone life
<https://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services/dgccrf/presse/communique/2020/CP-Ralentissement-fonctionnement-iPhone200207.pdf>

[Arlen Holder]

iPhones are clearly poorly designed with many unfixable fatal flaws...

Dateline today...
<https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/docs/press-releases/2020/consent-decree/11-18-2020%20APPLE-AZ%20CONSENT%20JUDGMENT.PDF>

Verbatim, because apologists hate facts, so they deny any and all facts
they simply _hate_ about Apple products (which is a hell of a lot of facts)

"Apple 'fully understood' that by concealing the issues, it could spend a
year profiting off of people who thought they needed to buy a new iPhone,
when they only really needed to replace their phone's battery
to avoid [premature] throttling or unexpected [premature] shutdowns."

o Apple will pay $113 million for throttling iPhones
<https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21573710/apple-battery-gate-throttle-iphones-settlement-amount>
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It's hard to find a mobile device more poorly designed than the iPhone is.

[Alan Baker]

On 2020-11-18 4:33 p.m., Arlen Holder wrote:
> (1) Note: Apple throttles almost all iPhones out there today; not just the
> iPhone 6S which is the phone that was cut in half speed that Apple admitted
> doing expressly, after about a year, purposefully to shorten its life.
>
> o Apple publicly agrees it committed the crime of purposefully shortening iPhone life
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/l6gAjvW6aqQ>
>

I lie.

[Alan Baker]

On 2020-11-18 4:33 p.m., Arlen Holder wrote:

> (1) Note: Apple throttles almost all iPhones out there today; not just the
> iPhone 6S which is the phone that was cut in half speed that Apple admitted
> doing expressly, after about a year, purposefully to shorten its life.
>
> o Apple publicly agrees it committed the crime of purposefully shortening iPhone life
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/l6gAjvW6aqQ>

Why must you lie, Arlen?

:-(

[News]

iPads next? The latest iOS pushes have killed iPad battery life, and are
causing repeated lockups and black screens reminiscent of the decade
ago, bad old, Microsoft BSOD.

[Arlen Holder]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:49:15 -0500, News wrote:

> iPads next? The latest iOS pushes have killed iPad battery life, and are
> causing repeated lockups and black screens reminiscent of the decade
> ago, bad old, Microsoft BSOD.

I don't know why, exactly, iPads aren't affected by throttling, since Apple
pretty much has added throttling software in _every_ major release since
iOS 10 started the practice (& iOS 14 is still a work in progress).
o Almost every iPhone in the world now has throttling software added by iOS
<https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/Mzh1IvniDr8/m/BfWe1CP5BwAJ>

Perhaps iPads are spared simply because Apple didn't cheap out on the
battery for iPads, where it's a fact Apple cheaped out on batteries even on
the iPhone 12 series (in addition to cheaping out on the accessories).

Apple loves to take away basic functionality... & then sell it back to you!
o It's basically part of their operating mantra (it's brilliant, in fact).

For just one example:
o Apple is activating secret software inside the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/OqOM4rY-oNY>

For another example:
o Apple to offset costly 5G iPhone components with cheaper battery tech
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/NXvxAutn4Lg>

There are so many examples that it's not a coincidence...
o Apple loves to remove functionality - so Apple can then sell it back!

BTW, while you mention Microsoft BSODs, they're infamous (where I have a
set myself I've been debugging and reporting upon in the relevant
newsgroups):
o Windows 10 BSOD indicates a hardware problem - but what hardware is the problem?
<https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/oL7PTNKu/windows-10-bsod-indicates-a-hardware-problem-but-what-hardware-is-the-problem>
<http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1110105>
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.microsoft.windows/u0ay9h777Wg>

My point is that when you bring up M$ BSODs, rest assured nobody on Windows
loves Microsoft for that infamous issue - but we should concentrate on
mobile devices, where nobody on Android loves Google either, but at least
Google and the OEMs don't consistently pull the sleazy tricks Apple does:
o Do any Android phone manufacturers throttle (CPUs, PD Charging, Modems) like Apple consistently does?
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/ZTmmGoAndyM>

Apple makes ungodly profits off their ungodly gullible customers for sure.
o But don't blame Microsoft or Google for Apple's ability to fool people.

While Apple R&D is the lowest in all high tech, Apple MARKETING is great!
o What is the most brilliant marketing move Apple ever made?
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/wW-fu0jsvAU>

Basically, Apple MARKETING has a plan, as far as is evident by the facts,
to slowly remove basic functionality from the device, and then _sell_ it
back.

Notice Apple removed CPU functionality from most iPhone owners (secretly at
first and now, they give the hapless iPhone owners a "choice" of bad &
worse):
a. Either choose to prematurely replace a perfectly good battery every year
b. Or you suffer the consequences of throttling

Which, itself, as we all know, gives iPhone owners the unenviable "choice"
A. Either choose right now for an unacceptably unstable device, or,
B. Choose right now for unacceptable speeds.
*YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE AND YOU MUST CHOOSE NOW!*

No wonder Apple has lost so many lawsuits - even with the finest lawyers.
o Who on earth would put up with those sleaze moves but Apple cultists?

In summary, Apple lawyers keep losing on throttling lawsuits simply because
the facts are clear Apple purposefully secretly drastically permanently
decreased the life of iPhones, and the facts prove Apple _continues_ this
sleazy throttling practice for almost every iPhone out there today.

Only Apple does this.
o (Despite nospam's blame of everyone but Apple for what Apple does.)
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Apple owners are especially gullible as they believe only in MARKETING bs.

[Arlen Holder]

Dateline today...

Verbatim, because apologists _hate_ what Apple is so they deny what it does
o They prefer to believe Apple isn't what it is but what it _says_ it is

"Apple has agreed to pay millions of dollars to 34 states over its
controversial previous practice of deliberately slowing down
older iPhones"

"Instead of disclosing the issue to consumers or replacing the batteries,
it pushed a software update in December 2016 that impacted the
performance"

o Apple to pay $113 million over deliberately slowing down iPhones
<https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/tech/apple-battery-settlement/index.html>

"Despite the mea culpa, it faced legal ramifications. In March, Apple
agreed to pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action
lawsuit accusing it of slowing down iPhones to compel users to buy
new ones."
--
Apple admitted they purposefully slowed down iPhones to shorten its life.
o Apple paid that criminal fine to the French criminal justice system.