Apple’s ‘easy workaround’ of its failing battery problem is costing it money, and now great inconvenience too it seems. It’s bad enough having to replace 519 million of them, without having more exploding. Now lawyers are gathering like a pack of hyenas. One attorney says Apple must keep old batteries as evidence for courts.
Apple Must Keep Old Batteries But Where?
We gave up googling for ‘iphone battery size’ after a while. We were a little nervous about levering a real iPhone battery loose. For now, let’s assume they are 2 mm thick (the math is easier than using inch fractions).
After converting back to feet, we figure the mountain of 519 million would stack 644 miles high. Now that’s going to a need a mother of a warehouse to store them, even if we made six-foot piles. We’ll ignore the problem of searching for a particular one in the stack, assuming the court agrees Apple must keep old batteries as evidence.
The Apple Problem Just Keeps on Getting Bigger
The lawyer behind one injunction already filed a request that Apple must keep old lithium batteries it exchanges because they want them as evidence for their class action lawsuit. For a moment, we’ll assume their clients are in one country. Otherwise, we might need a small fleet of container ships to bring them all to a central point.
However the lawyer does appear to have a point they need to “maintain and preserve any data they collect through diagnostic testing in order to protect the claims of all affected consumers.”
The core issue in the case is whether Apple “deceived many of its customers into buying brand new iPhones.
In other words, by rolling out its iOS throttling software, causing them material financial damages,” as the lawyer claims. To the extent that this is true, then perhaps they have a point that Apple should suspend its policy of “getting rid of batteries it pulls out of phones” as the attorney claims.
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