Apple Finally Slapped by French Consumer Fraud Group For Throttling iPhones
The News: Apple has been fined 25 million euros by a French consumer fraud group for intentionally slowing down some iPhone models with a software update. The Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and the Suppression of Fraud (DGCCRF), which is part of the country’s economy ministry, concluded that Apple had failed to inform users that […]
Opinion: It Only Took a Few Days of Testimony for the FTC’s Case Against Qualcomm to Fall Apart – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how, two years ago, when the FTC first filed its case against Qualcomm in US District Court, outgoing FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen took the extraordinary step of drafting a dissent letter that outlined just how unjustified and ill-advised the FTC’s case against Qualcomm was. She wasn’t wrong. […]
