Earlier, the iPhone lowered the performance of hosts equipped with old batteries without notifying users. Some groups in South Korea collected 63,767 plaintiffs and claimed 12.7 billion won (approximately 75.37 million yuan) from Apple. The case is the most common one in the local single event.
▲The picture shows Apple's first Apple Retail Store in Gangnam, South Korea
The South Korean law firm Haunnuri stated that they had applied for a lawsuit against the head office of the Apple Inc. and Korean apples in the morning of March 30th at the Seoul Central District Court. The plaintiffs had 63,767 people. They refer to iOS 10.2.1 and its In the latter version, performance degradation was caused in certain circumstances, and Apple knew this problem, but concealed the defects of the battery to consumers, and promoted the sale of successor models. This time there is a problematic software upgrade. The 36,767 plaintiffs who did not know the truth suffered from the deteriorating host performance.
Hannuri called Apple’s illicit misconduct and non-performance of debt. The plaintiff’s claim to Apple for iPhone damage and loss of spirit amounted to 200,000 won per person, totaling 12.8753 billion won.
The number of plaintiffs in the original Hannuri statistics was 400,372 people, but the number of plaintiffs in the process of verifying and providing evidence was greatly reduced. However, this incident is still 55,000 more than the number of claims for personal data outflow from the 3 local credit card companies in Korea in 2014. The number of plaintiffs was more than the number of plaintiffs in South Korea's single claims lawsuit.
In South Korea, there have been private organizations in January and early March of this year. 122 plaintiffs and 401 plaintiffs filed damages lawsuits against Apple. The amount of compensation for each case reached 2.2 million won (monthly 13060 yuan). .
