A French prosecutor has launched a preliminary investigation of U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) over alleged deception and planned obsolescence of its products following a complaint by a consumer organization, a judicial source said on Monday.
I think this will be the first of many such investigations.
Wise prosecutors will wait and see what the French prosecutor does before going anywhere with similar actions. Nothing Apple did can be called “planned obsolescence”, unless something else which no one has heard of shows up.
I don’t expect this to get very far.
Throttling the phone when the battery can’t keep up with power demands extends the life of the product rather than shortening it, so they’re actually doing the opposite of what they’re being investigated for.
How do you think that Apple’s PR budget is?
Why do they hire such imbeciles?
They are the most tone-deaf bunch I have ever seen.
Putting the customer first (or giving the illusion of such) is job #1
And completely botching their story about this. Amateurs.
And a great waste of money worldwide, unless they know something nobody else does about the entire “battery life” thing being an elaborate (and badly invented, I mean, why not pretend to communicate better if it’s a plot?) conspiracy.