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> In 2017, Apple put out a new iPhone, and in the same week, made my 1 year old iPhone unusable on purpose overnight to make me buy a new one.

Uhh, citation please? I had an iPhone 7 working flawlessly here until I decided to replace it last year.

The claim that a company “purposely” made your year old phone useless is beyond hyperbolic without at least a modicum of effort in supporting the claim.



Apple paid out $500M in a class action about exactly this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67911517

Denied any wrongdoing but still paid $500M... hmmm


Wow, what is that, like 1/2000th of their valuation? 1/4000th? A quarter of a tenth of a percent?

I'd like all my fines to be a quarter of a tenth of a percent of my net worth that'd be awesome.


How much lawyer time would $500M pay for though?

Seems to me there might have been some wrongdoing if they decided it was cheaper to pay.




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