Apple is already facing two class-action lawsuits from the iPhone users in the US.
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| The claimants said that the software updates impaired their ability to browse the web, check email and use various applications. (REUTERS) |
Two Israelis have filed an over $120 million class-action
lawsuit against Apple a week after the maker confirmed that it is
deliberately slowing down older iPhones to avoid the devices from shutting down
owing to old batteries.
According to a report in
Israeli newspaper Haaretz late on Monday, the suit filed here argued that the
company breached its basic duties toward users by failing to disclose that
‘innocent’ software updates would negatively impact their phone use.
The claimants said that the
software updates impaired their ability to browse the web, check email and use
various applications.
“There is no doubt that
information about the device slowing is important, and cardinal, and users had
the right to get (that information) from Apple before deciding whether to
install the software updates,” the lawsuit was cited as saying.
Sulaiman Law Group, Ltd, which operates as Atlas Consumer Law,
was representing several plaintiffs in a class-action complaint against Apple
in Illinois. A report in Quartz said that a second lawsuit was filed in
California.
People who owned iPhone 6,
6s, and 6s Plus devices have been complaining that their devices shut down
spontaneously even though they had sufficient battery.
Apple acknowledged the bug
and introduced a fix in an update to its operating system software, iOS 10.2.1,
which the company said would largely remedy the issue.
Apple claimed that it
introduced the software updates that slowed the phones to make aging batteries
last longer.
However, Atlas Consumer Law
said that the iOS updates, plaintiffs claim, were engineered with this very
purpose in mind -- fraudulently forcing iPhone owners to purchase the latest
model offered by Apple.
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