Apple, which has been fined some $500 million in recent years for slowing down iPhones, came to the fore today with a similar lawsuit. In the lawsuit filed for the first time in this direction in the UK, the company is selling iPhones with ‘defective batteries’ and software updates. By slowing down iPhones was accused.

In the collective complaint filed by the former director of research at Citizens Advice, the UK’s independent organisation, those affected Owners of iPhone 6, 7, 8 and X and below was declared. Gutmann’s claim on the website specially prepared for the complaint was as follows:

Apple has violated competition law

“Apple is abusing its dominant position in the respective iPhone and iOS markets, selling iPhones with defective batteries that don’t deliver peak power, and a company that slows down iPhones and causes performance issues. energy management tool including It violated competition law by sending automatic iOS updates to iPhones.”

Number of affected users in the application filed with the UK Competition Appeals Court 25 million declared as. It has not yet been determined how much the fine will be paid to users if Apple is wrong. Gutmann and his lawyers that you can find $927 million stated.

The defense came from Apple:

After the allegations, Apple quickly shared a defense. A spokesperson speaking on behalf of the company used the following words about the allegations:

“We have never and will never do anything that intentionally shortens the life of an Apple product or disrupts the user experience to enable upgrades for customers.”