XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-09-12 13:19, Wally J wrote:   
   > candycanearter07  wrote   
   >   
   >>> Only if the owner of the phone had been informed beforehand.  Perhaps   
   >>> providing a switch to let the owner decide if they want that option   
   >>> would have been prudent.  In this case they were found to be guilty of   
   >>> hiding what they were doing, which made owners upgrade to newer phones   
   >>> rather than just get new batteries.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Ironically, they *already have a low power mode switch*. The option was   
   >> *right there* and they just...didn't??   
   >   
   > You have to keep in mind that I reported this first to this newsgroup.   
   > Because I keep abreast of what is in the news about Apple products.   
   >   
   > You have to then keep in mind that for years, the iKooks denied the truth.   
   > They claimed all sorts of lies Apple promulgated - which failed in court.   
   >   
   > Apple paid over a billion dollars in the main lawsuit, and another hundred   
   > million or so in the criminal French prosecution & Attorneys General suits.   
   >   
   >             *Clearly Apple is a despicable company*   
   >                *Devoid of moral fortitude*   
   >   
   > Any decent company would have stood by their customers when they figured   
   > out that the power design of only some iPhones was incompetently designed.   
   >   
   > Any decent company would have recalled the affected phones (which, let's be   
   > very clear, was only a subset of phones - even as all the Apple iPhones and   
   > iPads used the exact same battery technology - a point lost on iKooks).   
   >   
   >      *Had Apple been a decent company - they would have recalled the phones*   
   >         *And they would have replaced the battery on those affected phones*   
   >             *Probably for two life cycles - (approx. four years)*   
   >   
   > Instead... *Apple tried to _hide_ their incompetent-design* mistake.   
   >   
   > As an adult, I wonder how much it would have cost Apple to simply do the   
   > decent moral thing instead of trying to screw the customer by   
   >   a. Secretly installing software that throttled the affected phones   
   >   b. Without telling anyone - not even Genius Bar employees   
   >   c. Such that millions of people went out and bought new phones   
   >   
   > And worse... to further cover up   
   >   A. Apple secretly added a cryptic single line to the release notes   
   >   B. Which merely alluded to the fact they "changed power delivery"   
   >   C. And then Apple secretly _backdated_ those release notes   
   >   
   > These _criminal_ actions by Apple were duly noticed and Apple lost every   
   > civil and criminal case against them (AFAIK) because the proof is there.   
   >   
   > And yet... the ignorant low-IQ uneducated religious zealot iKooks are   
   > completely oblivious of every single well-known fact I just stated.   
   >   
   > Why?   
   >   
   >   *Why are the iKooks so completely oblivious of all facts about Apple?*   
      
   Apple never lost a criminal case about this.   
      
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