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Apple and Samsung Fined for Reducing the Functionality

Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Samsung 5 million euros and Apple 10 million euros for contested practices. Both the companies released updates for mobile phones that cause serious malfunctions and slows down the old mobile phones, forcing users in replacing them. Apple apologized for slowing down phones performance of older iPhone models without users consent. Samsung denied it, saying the company not provided any software update that reduced the Galaxy Note 4performance Apple released a new update (iOS 10.2.1) in February 2017, without warning that its installation could reduce the speed of response and functionality.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/apple-samsung-functionality/

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