Why are Apple paying a $500 million settlement? #shorts

Why are Apple paying a $500 million settlement? #shorts

Remember battery gate when Apple admitted to slowing down some iPhones back in 2017 well the tech giant has begun making payments as part of a $500 million settlement in the US Apple claimed that the goal was to keep phones from randomly shutting down once the battery degrades Beyond a certain point

But Apple were accused of throttling the performance of the iPhone 6 and 7 and that their actions drove people to upgrade early rather than paying to have their phone batteries replace while $50 million sounds like a huge amount of money in Practical terms it translates to roughly $92 per person who filed a

Claim and it’s not just the US a similar case is underway in the UK seeking 1.6 billion in compensation from Apple

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