New Delhi: There was a lie on the model of iPhone from Apple. Due to this, the Apple company has been fined 10 million euros, about 88 crore rupees. Apple has been found guilty of spreading misleading advertisements of the iPhone model on behalf of Italy’s anti-trust authority. Due to this, an order has been issued to impose a fine on the company on Monday.
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Apple company accused of lying about iPhone
The Anti-Trust Authority of Italy stated that the Apple company had widely publicized the iPhone model being water registrations. But the company’s disclaimer states that the warranty will not be covered in case of damage from the phone’s fluid. Also, it was not told under which circumstances the water registration feature of iphone will work. This is a way to cheat customers. As of now, no statement has been issued by Apple in this matter yet.
Apple has already been fined
Apple iPhone models have also been fined earlier. In fact, due to the slowdown of the iPhone, the Apple company was fined $ 113 million, which is about 8.3 billion. According to the report, Apple released an update for the iPhone in 2016, due to which the old iPhones were slowed down. The company did not provide any information about this to its users. This case was also discussed in the name of batterygate. At the same time, Apple seems to be stuck in this matter once again. This time around 34 US states are jointly investigating this issue. For the settlement of this case, the company will have to pay a fine of 113 million i.e. about 8.3 billion. Even before this, the company has given $ 500 million as penalty.
There was a case of the phone being slow
In 2016, Apple made a software update for its iPhone 6, iPhone 7 and iPhone SE without any knowledge. So that aging batteries on devices do not send power spikes to the phone’s processor and turn it off unexpectedly. The old iPhone’s speed was slowed down due to this update. After which the US states said that the company had misled users. The company should have replaced the old iPhone battery or revealed the problem.
