Apple’s legal trouble following the company’s secret throttling of iPhones with older batteries won’t come to an end too soon and it expands to new markets, with the US government now starting an investigation of its own to determine whether the company violated laws with this practice.
While the company is being investigated in other markets for planned obsolescence, a report from Bloomberg points out that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into whether the Cupertino “violated securities laws concerning its disclosures.”
This means that the probe is more focused on the way Apple communicated its power management implementation to users than the actual slowdown of its devices, though it’s not yet clear what sanctions the company risks if found guilty.
On the other hand, the cited source says the investigation is still in its early days and all discussions are private, which means that there’s a chance the probe could b… (read more)
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