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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by hu3 on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:27PM (#22470988)
> you should read the actual article Apple wrote rather than Tech Crunch's summarization. It is not an apology. It's explaining battery chemistry: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387

I'll do one better, I'll dig Apple post before they changed to a non-apology one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171229000007/https://www.apple...

First paragraph:

> We’ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize.

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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by manfredo on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:30PM (#22471005)
Show me where Apple said "battery life does not cause your phone to slow down". This is what was alleged - that Apple denied battery life causes phones to slow down.

Apple wrote this letter to appease customers, because they don't understand battery chemistry and the canard that Apple was slowing down phones was proliferating and they needed to make some gesture.

> We’ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down.

This is a far cry from what was initially alleged: that Apple denied that battery life caused phones to slow down. This "apology" essentially amounts to "we're sorry you don't understand battery chemistry".

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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by hu3 on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:32PM (#22471020)
They couldn't deny it anymore. That's why it's an apology.
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