Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 (mashable.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the slowing-things-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A $5 million lawsuit filed in New York federal court alleges that Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating software significantly slows down the iPhone 4S. According to the complaint: "The update significantly slowed down their iPhones and interfered with the normal usage of the device, leaving Plaintiff with a difficult choice: use a slow and buggy device that disrupts everyday life or spend hundreds of dollars to buy a new phone. Apple explicitly represented to the public that iOS 9 is compatible with and supports the iPhone 4S. And Apple failed to warn iPhone 4S owners that the update may or will interfere with the device's performance."

3 of 344 comments (clear)

  1. Meanwhile in cuppertino... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Oh crap, not again, we're so screw.... wait! That's *million*...? Search the couch cushion in the lawyers-lounge and pay the ticket..."

    1. Re:Meanwhile in cuppertino... by fluffernutter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Samsung Galaxy S3 here, still going strong. They said the USB port would fail, they said the plastic back was cheap or that the replaceable battery would make it break but they are all fine. I don't believe in replacing things that work, it's bad for the environment. Nor do I believe in artificially making things 'not work' through software.

      --
      Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
  2. Re:expectation? by Lab+Rat+Jason · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My wife and I just ordered new iPhone 6s' yesterday because of this exact issue. The issue is about expectations, but not in the way you think it is... we have been able to run apps in the past, that after the update no longer perform well. I've had to remove all of my music and much of my pictures just to provide enough free memory to operate. Previously the phone could switch between web browsing and other apps without issue, even with multiple tabs (pages) loaded at one time. Now if I switch from words with friends to the browser with just a single page loaded, then back to words, I find the latter app has been shut down and needs to completely re-initialize before I can use it. My expectation was SET by the way the phone performed before the update, and now it performs terribly.

    If you didn't experience this issue, perhaps it is because you were not using the phone to it's full potential.

    --
    Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?