Apple (US: APPL) is in trouble again. The US tech giant has been hit with lawsuits from iPhone users in the US, France and Israel after it was revealed that a software update slowed the performance of phones with older batteries. Users have claimed that their phones had been deliberately slowed to push them to buy a newer model.
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Although Apple has apologised to iPhone owners and offered a discount on buying replacement batteries, management also claim that there had been “a lot of misunderstanding” about the issue and that the software update was designed to prevent unexpected shutdowns by improving how power was managed when the phone was used intensively.
