Against Apple filed the biggest class action lawsuit - from 63,000 iPhone owners
The law firm Hannuri Law filed in The Central District Court of Seoul in Korea's class action against Apple, while it represents the interests of just 63,000 outraged users.
The lawsuit is filed by name 63 767 iPhone owners, and this is the largest number of participants in a single trial.
AT than accuse
The cause of complaints was the deliberate slowdown of old smartphones , in than Apple confessed to the end of last year. Recall from Using the iOS update, the manufacturer reduced the speed of the devices and power consumption peaks to exclude the possibility of spontaneous reboot on measure the " aging " of batteries.
If Korea's Themis recognizes Apple as guilty, that will have to pay lawsuit $ 11.88 millions or $ 186 each claimant.
Who else is suing?
AT United States, by the last count, 59 suits have already been filed links with slowdown of smartphones. The question of will be able to whether the complaints submitted are consolidated in one class action suit.
AT January in The United States has filed a class action lawsuit against 122 users, and at early March - from 400.
Recall on Recently Apple «rolled» iOS 11.3 update , which allows users to turn off features that affect the the performance of the iPhone.
Source: The Investor