Seoul High Court sides with iPhone owners against Apple over ‘batterygate’


The Seoul High Court ruled that Apple has to pay 70,000 won (US$53) to each of the seven iPhone owners who were part of the lawsuit. - AFP

SEOUL: The High Court in Seoul on Dec 6 ruled against Apple in a damages suit filed by consumers in South Korea over allegations the US tech giant purposefully degraded the performance of older iPhones in a controversy that came to be known as “batterygate.”

The Seoul High Court ruled that Apple has to pay 70,000 won (US$53) to each of the seven iPhone owners who were part of the lawsuit that accused the company of slowing down the devices through software updates.

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