Last Updated: May 16, 2023, 01:50 IST
Apple France was not instantly accessible for remark.
The probe into Apple’s purported deceptive industrial practices and deliberate obsolescence has been below approach since December
France is investigating US tech big Apple over it allegedly planning for smartphones to change into outdated by way of proscribing their restore, prosecutors and an affiliation mentioned on Monday.
The probe into purported deceptive industrial practices and deliberate obsolescence has been below approach since December, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
It follows a grievance filed by the Halt Planned Obsolescence (HOP) affiliation.
HOP mentioned it hoped the investigation would exhibit the iPhone maker was “associating the serial numbers of spare elements to these of a smartphone, together with through microchips, giving the producer the opportunity of proscribing repairs by non-approved repairers or to remotely degrade a smartphone repaired with generic elements”.
The association called on Apple “to guarantee the right to repair devices under the logic of real circular economy”.
Apple France was not instantly accessible for remark.
Apple in 2020 agreed to pay 25 million euros (then $27.4 million) for failing to inform iPhone customers that software program updates may decelerate older units.
The scandal erupted in December 2017, when the US tech big admitted that its most up-to-date iOS software program was slowing the efficiency of older telephones whose battery life was deteriorating.
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