Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros and 10 million Euros for planned obsolescence of their mobile devices. Both companies are accused to have been slowing down their old devices with the intent of encouraging users to purchase new devices. Apple apologized for slowing down older iPhones in December 2017, the company introduced features, that impacted the iPhone 6, 6S, 7 and SE, to cope with aging batteries. Samsung announced in January that it does not provide the software updates to reduce the product performance over the life cycle of the device”]
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