{"id":141625,"date":"2020-02-08T01:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/apple-fined-e25m-in-france-for-misleading-consumers-about-slowed-down-iphones\/"},"modified":"2020-02-08T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:40:21","slug":"apple-fined-e25m-in-france-for-misleading-consumers-about-slowed-down-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/apple-fined-e25m-in-france-for-misleading-consumers-about-slowed-down-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple fined \u20ac25M in France for misleading consumers about slowed-down iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances consumer protection body hit Apple with a \u20ac25 million fine Friday for failing to inform consumers that updating their iPhones operating system would slow down the device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they couldnt go back to an older version of their operating system, a lot of consumers were forced to change their batteries and even buy a new phone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economie.gouv.fr\/files\/files\/directions_services\/dgccrf\/presse\/communique\/2020\/CP-Ralentissement-fonctionnement-iPhone200207.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the directorate general for competition, consumers and fraud control (DGCCRF), which is attached to the ministry of economy.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from a complaint by a non-governmental organization fighting against planned obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCCRFs inquiry did not find evidence of \u201cplanned obsolescence in the legal sense of the term,\u201d an official from the ministry of economy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/high-tech\/apple-ecope-d-une-amende-record-de-25-millions-d-euros-pour-defaut-d-information-des-consommateurs-07-02-2020-8254773.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Le Parisien<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But consumers were not informed that their phones could be slowed down by the iOS update, so Apple was found guilty of misleading commercial practice by omission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u20ac25 million fine<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/apple-fined-e25m-in-france-for-misleading-consumers-about-slowed-down-iphones\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances consumer protection body hit Apple with a \u20ac25 millio..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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