Apple agrees to pay over 54 billion yen as a settlement for `` a case that has reduced the peak performance of the iPhone ''

Apple tentatively agreed to pay a US $ 500 million settlement fee (about 54 billion yen) to U.S. iPhone users regarding `` a decrease in the peak performance of the iPhone '' discovered in December 2017. did.

Apple agrees to $ 500 million settlement for throttling older iPhones-The Verge
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At the end of 2017, there was a post on the Internet bulletin board saying `` The operation of the terminal became lighter when replacing the battery of the old iPhone ' ', and it is suspected that there is some relationship between the CPU performance and the battery performance of the iPhone It is now To clarify this suspicion, benchmark software Geekbench conducted a benchmark test on a new iPhone and an old iPhone, and it was revealed that CPU performance was intentionally reduced when the OS was updated on the old iPhone. Although Apple explained that the reason for intentionally lowering the peak performance of the iPhone was `` to protect the iPhone from unintentional shutdown etc. '', since it did not notify the user that the peak performance was lowered , Became a global problem.

Apple officially admits that `` the iPhone starts to lose performance as soon as one year later ''-gigazine

After it was revealed that Apple had dropped the peak performance of the iPhone, it was reported that it was immediately facing a class action, but Apple has been filed between 2017 and 2018 We have tentatively agreed to pay $ 500 million (approximately ¥ 54 billion) for ten class actions involving 'the iPhone's peak performance has been reduced.' The settlement is finalized after final approval by the California courts.

The breakdown of the settlement price is $ 25 per person (about 2700 yen) for users who purchased the iPhone 6 series or iPhone 7 series before the `` case that reduced iPhone peak performance '' became apparent . Also, those who filed a class action will be paid $ 1500 (about 160,000 yen) or $ 3,500 (about 380,000 yen), and about 90 million dollars (about 10 billion yen) to lawyers It becomes. The minimum payment of the settlement is $ 310 million (about 34 billion yen), and if there are few people seeking to receive the settlement, it is possible that the dividend per person may increase.

In addition, Apple has to pay a fine of 25 million euros (about 3 billion yen) to France for the same 'case that reduced the peak performance of the iPhone'.

Apple ends up paying France a fine of 3 billion yen to France for `` a decline in the peak performance of the iPhone ''-gigazine