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| Apple fined for bricking old iPhones down under Fine is probably not going to hurt Fruity cargo cult Apple has been slapped rigorously about the chops with a wet bus ticket by an Aussie court which decided that it was wrong to brick iPhones which had been fixed at non-authorised repairers. Apple has been hit with a $6.7 million fine for lying to its Aussie customers. More than two years ago Apple started to "brick" iPhones that had been fixed at non-authorized third party repairers, generating an Error 53. Apple admitted to intentionally preventing certain repaired iPhones and iPads from working for security reasons, but later apologised and issued a fix. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) was not impressed and sued Apple for "misleading or deceptive conduct", and now an Australian court has hit the iPhone-maker with a multi-million dollar fine. https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/465...nes-down-under |
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