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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Bud on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:08PM (#25144500)
Approximately zero. And obviously, those would have been covered under warranty.

The reason you haven't heard this before is that it didn't happen.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by gpm on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:11PM (#25144514)
Apple did not consider "my (friends) phone has been throttled because of the battery" as sufficient cause to replace the battery under warranty.
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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by darksaints on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:13PM (#25144533)
They weren't covered under my warranty.
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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by jiggawatts on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:53PM (#25144909)
It was covered under my warranty.

Either the warranty expired -- in which case it isn't a "few months", or it was within the warranty period, in which case it is covered.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by darksaints on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:11PM (#25145437)
Nope. Less than 8 months old. Battery was too degraded to run as normal, but didn't pass the threshold for replacement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25144122

But don't take my word for it. RTFA. This lawsuit was settled because of the exact scenario I described.

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