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Apple Starts Sending 'Batterygate' Settlement Payments to iPhone Users::Apple in 2020 agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. that accused the company of "secretly...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you all going to do with your $2.18 check?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article says it’s $92.17

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

What ever, just tell us lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

First comment on that story (as of right now) blames the media for not being able to report the issue correctly and then goes on to describe what he fails to recognize as a serious design flaw.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's all the comments. I don't know what else to expect from the forum of macrumors.com.

I think they don't understand or don't want to understand the real issue. The problem is not that batteries degrade and Apple throttles the phone to protect electronics. The problem is that batteries are designed to degrade, are not replaceable, and Apple profits from this by having you buy new phones.

Shameless plug of Fairphone here. I am not buying any headphones that are not from them any more. The sound is great, at least for me (I am no connoisseur), the whole thing works OK. But when one of the straps broke, I didn't have to buy a new thing, I just needed to unscrew two screws, pull out and USB-C cable and put the new thing I bought for 10 bucks in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's funny when it's the litigious mega corp setting to avoid costly litigation when that's the shit they push on others to keep them out of their industry.