The fine was imposed by France’s competition and fraud watchdog DGCCRF, which said consumers were not warned.
In 2017, Apple confirmed it did slow down some iPhones, but said it only did so to “prolong the life” of the devices.
Apple said in a statement that it had resolved the issue with the watchdog.
Why does Apple slow down old iPhones?
Many customers had long suspected that Apple slowed down older iPhones to encourage people to upgrade when a new one was released.
In 2017, the company confirmed it did slow down some models as they aged, but not to encourage people to upgrade.
It said the lithium-ion batteries in the devices became less capable of supplying peak current demands as they aged over time.
That could result in an iPhone unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components.
So, it released a software update for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE, which “smoothed out” battery performance.
The practice was confirmed after a customer shared performance tests on Reddit, suggesting their iPhone 6S had slowed down considerably as it had aged, but had suddenly speeded up again after the battery had been replaced.
What did the regulator say?
The French watchdog said iPhone owners “were not informed that installing iOS updates (10.2.1 and 11.2) could slow down their devices”.
As part of the agreement, Apple must display a notice on its French-language website for a month.
It says Apple “committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission” and had agreed to pay the fine.
Does Apple still slow down older iPhones?
Yes. Since Apple confirmed the practice in 2017, it has implemented it on several more iPhones including:
Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government. When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment.
Trump’s company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that.
At Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, the Secret Service was charged the $650 rate dozens of times in 2017, and a different rate, $396.15, dozens more times in 2018, according to documents from Trump’s visits.
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
These payments appear to contradict the Trump Organization’s own statements about what it charges members of his government entourage. “If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” Trump’s son Eric said in a Yahoo Finance interview last year.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known. The Secret Service has not listed them in public databases of federal spending, as is usually required for payments over $10,000.
Instead, documents have come out piecemeal, through public records requests from news organizations and watchdog groups. The Washington Post compiled available records and found 103 payments from the Secret Service to Trump’s company dated between January 2017 and April 2018.
The records show more than $471,000 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher.
“It is more than a little disconcerting, knowing this is going on, and not knowing what the actual numbers are,” said Jordan Libowitz, of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “That’s kind of crazy that we know the president is benefiting from the presidency, and we do not know how. We do not know how many taxpayer dollars are in his pocket.”
The White House did not respond to questions about Trump’s knowledge of these payments.
either listen to the marginalized people in places like florida telling you bernie is the only candidate who will give them dental care, vision care, AND HEALTHCARE
and realize not every state is california or new york where yall can vote blue no matter who because your states already offers you aid you take it for granted
or throw us under the bus like your candidates of choice do and give trump a second term cause the other candidates wont be different for us.
you spit in our faces and tell us we dont deserve dental care, vision care, or healthcare and then ask why your candidate can’t take florida or can’t get their black votes up or their latino votes
if your number one concern is electibility then your number one concern must be the marginalized desperate for healthcare and dental care and vision care and aid in general that only bernie sanders is willing to offer
please dont let trump win again please let us get our cavities filled and our health checked up, please vote for bernie sanders or watch us all die as you blame us for trumps presidency when you never truly cared about electibility because you never really cared about us.
Exactly. people look down on people in “red” states because they think we’re stupid. In the 2016 primaries Michigan went so blue because of bernie’s policies. mostly on healthcare i believe but i remember his ban on fracking also really had people talking.
people dont understand that for us who live in swing states we cant mobilize our poor around just any democrat … it has to be ones who will actually change things in our states
and the only democratic candidate who cares about the poor in every state is bernie sanders
every other candidate refuses to stand strong on their healthcare stance, or education stances, so we cant get florida to vote for warren who doesnt care if they have dental or not
etc!
these states are important and other democrats have forsaken them. bernie is the only one who will win swing states because he is the only one who HAS won swing states over already
WE HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING SINCE BEFORE OBAMA LEFT OFFICE STRUGGLING TO GET OUR PEOPLE TO VOTE AND THEY WILL ONLY COME OUT FOR BERNIE. THEYVE TOLD US IN 2016 AND THEYRE TELLING US NOW.
please do not take your blue no matter who states for granted and throw the rest of us to the wolves.
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
