Feds Probe Apple Over iPhone Slowdown Conspiracy

Originally published at: https://infostormer.com/feds-probe-apple-over-iphone-slowdown-conspiracy/

The problems with Apple are continuing. The federal government is now investigating them over the iPhone slowdown conspiracy that they admittedly engaged in.

Bloomberg:

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple Inc. violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed older iPhone models, according to people familiar with the matter.

The government has requested information from the company, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the probe is private. The inquiry is in early stages, they cautioned, and it’s too soon to conclude any enforcement will follow.

Spokesmen for Apple and the government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The news comes several weeks after Apple admitted to slowing down the performance of older iPhones models as a way to make their internal batteries last longer. Apple released a software update early in 2017 to start throttling older iPhones, but didn’t specify that the action slowed the devices. In December, Apple apologized for not communicating this information and vowed to release another update to mitigate the concern.

The slowdowns only occur when the iPhone’s battery reaches a certain, unspecified point of low health and can be fixed if a user replaces the old battery with a new one. As part of its public apology, Apple cut the prices of battery replacements in its stores to $29, a $50 discount.

Apple plans to release an iPhone software update, called iOS 11.3, in the spring with new features that allow users to monitor the health of their batteries and protect against slowdowns. If consumers turn off the throttling, older iPhones will be more prone to randomly rebooting, Apple has said. The system affects iPhone 7 models and older, but not the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, according to the company.

After apologizing to customers in December, Apple was sued by consumer advocacy groups and individual iPhone users in a global backlash. U.S. government officials, including Senator John Thune have also questioned Apple about the slowdowns.

So Apple is getting sued by all sorts of consumer advocacy groups and now the feds are probing them. This is not going to end well for them.

This is what they get for not engaging in honest business practices. When Tim Cook the moronic faggot took over the company, he thought that he could sustain and grow the company by selling unlimited smartphones. Apple employed dirty tricks like this battery chicanery to ruin an iPhone’s performance after a period of time and force people to buy a new smartphone.

It’s a very cynical business model but it’s the only way Apple could push unlimited smartphones down everyone’s throats. Smartphones are a commodity product now. It’s old technology and they’re spending all their internal resources developing weird bells and whistles for these smartphones that nobody wants.

This is what happens when you put homosexuals and women in charge of companies. They fuck everything up.

 

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