“The Korean broadcasting and telecom regulator has formally sought an explanation from Apple on allegations that it tried to defraud customers by deliberately slowing down devices without warning, according to industry sources on Dec. 28,” Alex Lee reports for The Korea Herald.
“‘We are hoping to get some answers on whether Apple intentionally restricted the performance of old iPhones and tried to hide this from customers,’ said the Korea Communications Commission,” Lee reports.
“KCC has no jurisdiction over Apple, which is categorized as a multinational firm,” Lee reports. “It cannot launch an official probe and can only seek an explanation at the most.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shocking that a formal demand on this topic would come from The Republic of Samsung.
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Samsungorea calling out Apple for fraud is fucking funny! 😂🔥
Hardly shocking that Korea Inc would stop at nothing to always protect their large industrial (politically controlled) state
I won’t defend Samsung, but didn’t the Korean justice system put Samsung’s head honcho in jail?
yep, bigger than Dallas, Texas…and that’s big.
I think it’s already been explained. Are they deaf? The only thing Apple should change is an opt in or opt out on saving battery power by slowing down the CPU.
No Peter, I’m afraid that you’re deaf. Apple never said that they throttled phones until they were caught.
I saw this explanation BEFORE the official Apple one. But the point is moot now.
This was never about throttling the overall performance of the phone for saving battery power. It was about smoothing out peak performance to avoid unexpected shutdowns.
On unfixed phones, the battery level didn’t drop gradually from 100% to 0%, like a new phone but faster. Instead, it dropped very rapidly (minutes) from over 80% to something just over 20% and then shut down completely before the first low-battery warning. An iPhone that had reached that stage was virtually unusable, particularly in cold weather. It posed the risk of stranding the user phoneless in an emergency without any prior notice.
The Apple software fix eliminated that safety issue by smoothing out peak usage so that the phone would discharge gracefully, giving warnings at 20% and 10% so that the user could either recharge the phone or stop relying on it.
As for the idiotic “planned obsolescence” argument, Apple would have made more sales, not fewer, if it had allowed older phones to keep shutting down without warning. In my book, I would rather have a phone that levels peak battery usage by throttling back, rather than one that stops working unexpectedly when I need it the most.
Hey Pete. You should work for Apple or are you actually Tim Cook anyway just floating ideas? Can i suggest you take a good look at how you treat your customers and stop pretending you care?
Feather is a feather brain. Delusional much?
Oh dear Pete. Just no where near as much as you. How many lawyers does Apple have again? LOL. 😂
Hey Pete, just thinking, with the battery 💩storm just starting I wonder what the Apple propaganda machine will call this? Can i suggest #finallytellthetruthgate.
Schadenfreude in its purest form i think 😃
Tempest in a teapot I’d call it. A mountain out of a molehill. AKA get a life everyone. Apple should notify or let people opt in with such a change of course but really no one died. Why haven’t these people simply replaced their batteries anyway? Sheesh! Problems of the First World…
I want to know why Apple decides to quietly slow older iPhones without tell the user, hence the user can decide if to upgrade software. This is exactly like what Tim Cook did with that U2 album.
Someone understands:
http://tinyurl.com/y8shve9s
Other phone manufacturers do exactly the same thing.
The conclusion of the above article:
Smartphone performance constantly changes depending on operating conditions, software, and operating system, state of battery charge, and age of the device. It simply isn’t reasonable to expect a smartphone to maintain optimal performance even over the course of a day, let alone over a period of years.
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-rigged-the-s4-to-unnaturally-perform-better-in-971577921
Apple actually did this to help users. Samsung was trying to deceive.
Hey, Tim, sleeping well? You apparently had no qualms f*cking your consumers. I hope you enjoy getting f*cked in the courts.